HTML Tags for Acronyms, Abbreviations and Definitions

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The tags for including definitions, abbreviations and acronyms in HTML 5 include:

• abbr for abbreviations and acronyms in HTML (don't use the deprecated HTML <acronym> tag)
• dfn for definitions in HTML

For the meanings of HTML vocabulary terms, see Definitions of HTML Terminology.