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The easiest way to create HTML code indicating that the acronym TP stands for Teleprocessing is to simply include the acronym in an HTML <a> tag and an abbreviation tag (not an acronym tag):
<a href="http://www.Acronyms.net/terms/t/Teleprocessing/" title="Teleprocessing"
onclick="if (confirm('TP stands for Teleprocessing')) return false;"
>
<abbr>TP</abbr>
</a>
This is the recommended code for both HTML 4 browsers and HTML 5 browsers. Some browsers, most notably IE, do not activate help when the title attribute is coded on the <abbr> tag, but they do work as expected for titles on the <a> tag. The <abbr> tag inherits its title attribute from the parent <a> tag.
If you are creating HTML code for the definition of Teleprocessing, the meaning of the acronym TP, then include a <dfn> definition tag around the <abbr> abbreviation tag and follow the entire HTML code for the hypertext link with the definition of the term:
<p>A <a href="http://www.Acronyms.net/terms/t/Teleprocessing/" title="Teleprocessing"
onclick="if (confirm('TP stands for Teleprocessing')) return false;"
>
<dfn><abbr title="Teleprocessing">TP</abbr>
</a> is ...(definition of Teleprocessing)....</p>
The <dfn> tag gets the term being defined from the title attribute of the <abbr> tag. The result should look like this (hovering your mouse over the TP acronym shows the expanded meaning of the acronym):
A TP is ...(definition of "Teleprocessing")....
If you are creating HTML code that simply expands the acronym then indicate that it is the TP acronymn which is being defined using an HTML <dfn> tag with a title attribute around the <abbr> tag and follow the HTML for the hypertext link with the acronym definition:
<p>When we use the acronym <a href="http://www.Acronyms.net/terms/t/Teleprocessing/" title="Teleprocessing"
onclick="if (confirm('TP stands for Teleprocessing')) return false;"
>
<dfn title="TP"><abbr title="Teleprocessing">TP</abbr></dfn>
</a> it is the abbreviation for Teleprocessing.</p>
The result should look like this (hovering your mouse over the TP acronym shows the definition):
When we use the acronym TP it is the abbreviation for Teleprocessing.
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