Mar 172010
Here is a quick little post about a neat little feature that some of you may not know about. It’s the acronym title.
Suppose you like a mouseover text box explaining your acronym, say BWI for example. See the little underline underneath my BWI, and the mouseover text box?
Generally, the common way to use an acronym is to first spell it out in full first, then use it afterwards. Well, in the online world, that acronym can be explained from it first use with the simple use of this code. It works similar to a normal anchor tag.
<acronym title=”Best Web Image”>BWI</acronym>
Give it a try. It’s easy!
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I still prefer it be the old fashioned way, lol. The full title first time it’s used with the acronym in brackets next to it and used from that point on.
Till then,
Jean
Good information, thanks for sharing this..
In my web-browser there’s nothing to indicate that “BWI” is an acronym and something special happens when you mouse-over it. Even though it works in my browser, I wouldn’t have a clue it was there if you hadn’t said.
I know you’re keen on usability, and this is a neat trick, but not so much if a part of your audience doesn’t know it’s there…?
Guy.
Another informative tip from you Robert.. Thanks for sharing…
Very good share…
A highly important detail, you thought well of mentioning.
It open’s a page to more accessibility and it’s quite a semantic way of adding accronyms.
I actually didn’t know this… I like your idea but it looks a little like an ad. I’ll try it out though! thanks
I used this for “seo” and it helped a lot! I didn’t realize how many people didn’t know what seo meant.
yes if a title is unique and attractive then its better.