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html tag: acronym

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

acronyms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name for example HTML is short for Hyper Text Markup Language.

acronyms are generally used to help the acronym stand out more and allow more information to be displayed when mousing over, just like the title attribute in the anchor tags.

Acronym attributes

  • title - the title attribute is used to show the complete phrase or abbreviation

Acronym example

 <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>

The above example will give us the following: HTML (mouseover the HTML text)

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html tag: blockquote

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

The blockquote is used for large quotations. Within the blockquote element there must be a block-level element eg. <p>, <div>, <ul>, <ol> etc.

Possible blockquote attributes

  • cite is used to specify the URL where the quote has come from.

Blockquote Example

    <blockquote>
		<p>
			Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque tortor neque, accumsan vel, convallis in, pulvinar id, ipsum.
		</p>
    </blockquote>

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