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The easiest way to create HTML code indicating that the acronym VIPs stands for Very Important People 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/v/Very-Important-People/" title="Very Important People" onclick="if (confirm('VIPs stands for Very Important People')) return false;"> <abbr>VIPs</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 Very Important People, the meaning of the acronym VIPs, 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/v/Very-Important-People/" title="Very Important People" onclick="if (confirm('VIPs stands for Very Important People')) return false;"> <dfn><abbr title="Very Important People">VIPs</abbr></a> is ...(definition of Very Important People)....</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 VIPs acronym shows the expanded meaning of the acronym):
A
VIPs
is ...(definition of "Very Important People")....
If you are creating HTML code that simply expands the acronym then indicate that it is the VIPs 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/v/Very-Important-People/" title="Very Important People" onclick="if (confirm('VIPs stands for Very Important People')) return false;"> <dfn title="VIPs"><abbr title="Very Important People">VIPs</abbr></dfn></a> it is the abbreviation for Very Important People.</p>
The result should look like this (hovering your mouse over the VIPs acronym shows the definition):
When we use the acronym
VIPs
it is the abbreviation for Very Important People.
Acronym Vocabulary URI Declaration
For the remaining examples, the Acronym Vocabulary namespace URI needs to be declared for use with element tag names and attribute values. For an HTML web page, the beginning of the file should look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html [ <!ENTITY at "http://Acronyms.net/terms/"> <!ENTITY av "http://Acronyms.net/vocabulary/">]><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:av="&av;"> <head> <style type="text/css"> .hide { display: none } </style> ...
This only needs to be done once per document file.