The <dfn> Tag

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The <dfn> tag in HTML 5

The term that is being defined can be any one of the following:

• the content of the dfn element between the <dfn> start tag and the </dfn> end tag
• the title attribute of the <dfn> tag
• the title attribute of an <abbr> tag that is the sole content (no other tags or text nodes) of the dfn element

Note that many HTML pages and even a significant number of examples on the web misuse the title attribute for the definition of the term when it is supposed to be the term that is being defined.

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