Joseph W. Lowery
"Dreamweaver CS3 Bible"
To remove a
nonstandard tag such as
, choose the tag in the Tag Selector and right-click (Control+click) to
open the context menu; then select Remove Tag.
Adding abbreviations and acronyms
Two other tags worth noting designate abbreviations, ..., and acronyms,
.... The abbreviation or acronym is enclosed within the tag pair. Both tags include
a title attribute, which is used to specify the full text of the abbreviation or acronym. The following code
shows examples of both tags:
Inc.
OOP
The and tags are relatively new and are not yet widely used. These tags are not
intended to actually change the visual style of the text in a browser, but instead they enable programs that
process the document to clearly identify acronyms and abbreviations. For example, in the future, words
marked as abbreviations could allow non-visual browsers to read the expanded word, rather than sounding
out the abbreviation. If designated as an abbreviation, the letters PA could be read as Pennsylvania rather
than as the word pa. In the future, this tag could also be used to provide alternate text for search engines,
spell checkers, and translation programs.
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