abbr-design-pattern

Abbr design pattern

Purpose

Use the abbr-design-pattern to make text that is human readable also formally machine readable.

Discussion

• Theoretically, this could be done with almost any HTML element. But is it a good idea? If it's not, is abbr the only one? DavidJanes
• abbr-design-pattern should be avoided, if possible. RobertBachmann
  • why, or under what circumstances? For example, it is quite useful with datetimes. Should there not be other potentially analogous situations? DavidJanes

See Also

• All microformat design patterns
• discussion in microformats-discuss
• datetime-design-pattern uses abbr-design-pattern
• HTML 4.01 definition