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I love <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym>.

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  1. TeMc

    I never heard of the acronym-tag, thought abbr-element was made for this.

    Atleast, acronym doesn’t have styling by default in Firefox/Safari (ie. question cursor and dotted underline), where abbr(evation) has !


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    Eitherway, thanks :)
    Also check out over here:
    http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/articles/abbr-vs-acronym.shtml
    PS: Is there a difference between the

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    • ambrooks

      My understanding is that one of these will be depreciated in html5. I don’t remember which one it is, though.

  2. drewschug

    Acronyms and Abbreviations are different. This looked to have some good definitions http://www.acronym-guide.com/difference-between-acronyms-and-abbreviations.php

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  3. Vas

    Thanks a lot :)

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  4. Falkon

    one question; how can you make a tooltip for navigation-bar like in Yahoo? when mouse over you have the tool tip that explains the content of that page before choosing that link in a nav-bar.

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  5. YujiTFD

    Avoid the Deprecated <acronym> Tag in HTML 5

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