acronym

Summary

This element is deprecated in HTML5, in favor of the abbr element. It should no longer be used.

The acronym element indicated an abbreviation or a word formed by the initial letter or letters (or major parts) of a compound term, like NATO, radar or Interpol.

Overview Table

DOM Interface

HTMLElement

The acronym element was a type of phrasing content that existed at the sub-paragraph level. It may not contain block-level elements.

An equivalent to this element in HTML5 is the abbr element.

Related specifications

HTML 4.01 Specification

W3C Recommendation

See also

Related articles

Deprecated

• -ms-radial-gradient

• -ms-repeating-linear-gradient

• -ms-repeating-radial-gradient

• MutationEvent

• attrChange

• attrName

• initMutationEvent

• newValue

• prevValue

• relatedNode

• !DOCTYPE

• !DOCTYPE

• acronym

• escape

• unescape

HTML

• user-modify

• textLength

• value

• accept

• action

• alt

• autocomplete

• autofocus

• checked

• crossorigin

• form

• formEnctype

• height

• list

• max (HTMLInputElement)

• maxLength

• min

• multiple

• readonly

• size

• standby

• step

• HTML Elements

• !DOCTYPE

• !DOCTYPE

• acronym

• b

• b

• br

• br

• button

• button

• caption

• cite

• code

• col

• colgroup

• datalist

• del

• dfn

• div

• em

• EMBED

• fieldset

• font

• footer

• head

• hn

• hr

• html

• i

• img

• input

• ins

• kbd

• legend

• mark

• option

• p

• samp

• script

• span

• strong

• table

• tbody

• td

• tfoot

• th

• time

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]