Have you ever come across text that is littered with acronyms and jargon, that is just incomprehensible and dense?

Acronyms and abbreviations can be especially difficult to decipher when you are reading text that is specific to a field or niche that you aren’t very familiar with.

HTML Abbreviations

Luckily, HTML allows you to specify the definition of a word without messing up your presentation.

Abbreviation tags are very simple; there’s the tag, <abbr>, the definition, title=”meaning of the term goes here,” the word you are defining, and the closing tag, </abbr>. Here are some examples:

And the results:

SCUBA diving lets you dive to much deeper levels than snorkeling.

NASA announced a new space capsule today.

So now you can scrub your XHTML + XML with SOAP and AJAX and people will actually know what you’re talking about!