The and tags represent the text abbreviation and abbreviation presented in the web page, both pass title attribute to give the full name of the abbreviation . The difference between the two is that the tag is used to represent the acronym , and often the abbreviated form is a word that can be pronounced . For example:
title="United Nations">U.N./abbr>
Jack weighs 90 abbr title="kilograms">kg.abbr>
abbr title="Save Our Soul">SOSabbr>
acronym title=" North Atlantic Treaty Organization">NATOacronym>
acronym title="radio detecting and ranging">radar acronym>
abbr title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBIabbr>
The displayed result is:
U.N.
Jack weighs 90 kg.
SOS
NATO
radar
FBI
There are some abbreviations, like URL and SQL can be pronounced as as one word , or as pronounced letter by letter as , in which case use abbr> tag is better than . Style sheets can now be used to specify spoken pronunciation, for example
abbr title="Structured Query Language">SQLabbr>
and
abbr[title="Structured Query Language"]{speak:spell-out;}
are used together.
[This tag is not useful for simple browsing, but it can be used if you want the text to be searchable]