# Abbreviation

## abbreviation

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HTML
*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
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<p><abbr title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</abbr></p>
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The HTML specification is maintained by the W3C.
*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
*[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium
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<p>The <abbr title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</abbr> specification is maintained by the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr>.</p>
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The HTML specification is maintained by the W3C.
*[HTML]:
    Hyper Text Markup Language
*[W3C]:
    World Wide Web Consortium
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<p>The <abbr title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</abbr> specification is maintained by the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr>.</p>
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The HTML specification is maintained by the W3C.
*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
*[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium
There is more text below this one.
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<p>The <abbr title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</abbr> specification is maintained by the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr>.</p>
<p>There is more text below this one.</p>
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The latest spec of HTML is HTML5.
*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
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<p>The latest spec of <abbr title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</abbr> is <abbr title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</abbr>5.</p>
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HTML should always be spelt with capital letters and not spelt html.
*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
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<p><abbr title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</abbr> should always be spelt with capital letters and not spelt html.</p>
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HTML is an abbreviation but nobody knows what it stands for.
*[HTML]:
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<p><abbr>HTML</abbr> is an abbreviation but nobody knows what it stands for.</p>
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Foo.* looks like a regular expression.
*[Foo.*]: Just foo
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<p><abbr title="Just foo">Foo.*</abbr> looks like a regular expression.</p>
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Untrusted HTML should be escaped.
*[HTML]: <p>This is some HTML</p>
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<p>Untrusted <abbr title="&lt;p&gt;This is some HTML&lt;/p&gt;">HTML</abbr> should be escaped.</p>
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