Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 02/07/06 22:16

John Salerno <johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

> Is it recommended to use <abbr> more than once for the same
> abbreviation on a page? Or should it just be used on the first
> occurrence?

It is part of the problem of poor design of <abbr> that this question
is not answered in the authoritative specifications.

But the simple answer is that you should not use <abbr> at all.

It is poorly designed and improperly defined even in principle.
In practice, it helps few people and annoys many, so it's perhaps just
a lesser problem that IE 6 does not support it at all.

Most importantly, when authors play with <abbr>, they forget to do
important things. Like explain their abbreviations in normal prose that
is visible to everyone.

More on this: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/abbr.html

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