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HTML <acronym> Acronym Tag

An acronym is nothing but a single word formed from the initial letter of the longer word or phrase which has the original meaning. For Example, NASA is the acronym of National Aeronautics & Space Administration.

In HTML, the tag is similar to the <abbr> tag. This tag can be used with the “title” attribute (optional). It contains both the start tag and the end tag.

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Syntax:

In HTML, the Acronym tag always comes in pairs. The content is written between the opening tag and closing tags. This tag displayed the pop-up text prompt when hovering the mouse over the word.

Note: The tag is a deprecated HTML tag, and it is not supported in the updated version of HTML 5. You can use the tag instead of this tag.

Samples of HTML Tag:


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Acronym Tag Explanation</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Hover the mouse cursor over acronym NASA</p>
    <acronym title="National Aeronautics &amp; Space Administration">NASA</acronym>
  </body>
</html>

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Result:

Acronym Tag

Styling Methods for Tag:

The HTML Acronym tag supports the global attributes and the event attributes. You can use the following properties to style a <acronym> tag.

Properties to style the visual weight/emphasis/size of the text in tag:

  • CSS font-style – This CSS property helps to set the font style of the text such as normal, italic, oblique, initial, inherit.
  • CSS font-family – This CSS property specifies a prioritized list of one or more font family names or generic family names for the selected element.
  • CSS font-size – This CSS property will help to set the size of the font.
  • CSS font-weight – This CSS property used to define whether the font should be bold or thick.
  • CSS text-transform – This CSS property will control the text case and capitalization.
  • CSS test-decoration – This CSS property specifies the decoration added to text such as text-decoration-line , text-decoration-color , text-decoration- style.

Styles to coloring the text in Tag:

  • CSS color – This CSS property will specify the color of the text content and decorations.
  • CSS background-color – This CSS property helps to set the background color of an element.

Text layout styles for Tag:

  • CSS text-indent – This CSS property is used to specify the indentation of the first line in a text block.
  • *CSS text-overflow * – This CSS property helps to describe how overflowed content that is not displayed should be signaled to the user.
  • CSS white-space – This CSS property describes how white-space inside an element is handled.
  • CSS word-break – This CSS property decides where the lines should be broken.

Other Properties for Tag:

  • CSS text-shadow – This CSS property helps to add the shadow to text.
  • CSS text-align-last – This CSS property will set the alignment of the last line of the text.
  • CSS line-height – This CSS property defines the height of a line.
  • CSS letter-spacing – This CSS property helps to decide the spaces between letters/characters in a text.
  • CSS word-spacing – This CSS property specifies the spacing between every word.

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