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dfn element | dfn object

[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Indicates the defining instance of a term.

HTML 4.01 Specification, Section 9.2.1

Standards information

HTML information

Closing Tagrequired
CSS Displayinline

DOM Information

Inheritance Hierarchy

 Node
    dfn
 Element
    dfn

Remarks

Examples

This example uses the DFN element to indicate a term definition.


<DFN>HTML stands for hypertext markup language.</DFN>

See also

Reference
acronym
address
cite
i

 

 

Build date: 3/8/2012

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