<acronym> </acronym>

PURPOSE: A tag to defines the start of an acronym, like "HTML" and "CSS". By marking up acronyms you can give useful information to browsers and search-engine indexers.

Below is a basic html document. The referenced html tag is in RED. All tags must have a start and a end tag. Most end tags have a / before the tags name, however there are a few that are done differently. The tags that end differently will be noted and highlighted. The order of the start and end tags is also very important to proper display of your page in a web browser.


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title> The Page Title Goes Here </title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This tutorial is about <acronym title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</acronym>.</p>
</body>
</html>


It produces this result:

This tutorial is about HTML.


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