Chapter 3.5: Abbreviations & Acronyms
Abbreviating something means to make it shorter, such as "L.O.L" is the abbreviation for "Laugh out Loud". And the way you would represent that with HTML is give what your abbreviating its title of it fully stands for with <abbr title="NAME"> and then the actual text of the abbreviated word, such as:
<p><abbr title="Sunspots">S.S</abbr> are areas of the sun that are cooler than the rest.</p>
Would make:
<p><abbr title="Sunspots">S.S</abbr> are areas of the sun that are cooler than the rest.</p>
Would make:
S.S are areas of the sun that are cooler than the rest.
Now when you put your mouse over that line of text it will show what it means. Go ahead, put your mouse over S.S and it will read you "Sunspots". This is great for explaining things to people that they don't know.
Now when your shortening a business name, we like to think of that as an "Acronym" or the <acronym> tag. (No shortings). And like the abbreviation tag you just <acronym title="Blah"> and then it will display it as it did wit the abbreviation tag.
So...
<p><acronym title="National Aeronautics and Space Administration">NASA</acronym> Discovered this</p>
Would Make:
So...
<p><acronym title="National Aeronautics and Space Administration">NASA</acronym> Discovered this</p>
Would Make:
NASA Discovered this
Now let's put those two things together and throw in an <hr> tag to represent separated information, and add some headers to show which columns has which information. So...
<h1>The Information:</h1>
<p><abbr title="Sunspots">S.S</abbr> are areas of the sun that are cooler than the rest.</p>
<hr>
<h1>Who discovered this:</h1><p><acronym title="National Aeronautics and Space Administration">NASA</acronym> Discovered this</p>
will then make:
<h1>The Information:</h1>
<p><abbr title="Sunspots">S.S</abbr> are areas of the sun that are cooler than the rest.</p>
<hr>
<h1>Who discovered this:</h1><p><acronym title="National Aeronautics and Space Administration">NASA</acronym> Discovered this</p>
will then make:
The Information:
S.S are areas of the sun that are cooler than the rest.
Who discovered this:
NASA Discovered this