NWE Help: Web: Authoring: HTML: Tips: Acronyms

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To help readers understand acronyms, use the acronym tag. This tag allows you to display the full text when a user hovers the mouse over the text. This is helpful for users, for clarity in your text, and for general accessibility. To use an acronym, just use the acronym tag and set the full text as in the example below.

<acronym title="Networked Writing Environment">NWE</acronym>

Hover your mouse over the "NWE" below to see how this works:

NWE