Linked acronyms...
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 9:57 am
I've taken to the practice of using acronym tags to provide the full expansion of acronyms and abbreviations on my pages. Typically speaking I definately like the affect. However, in many case the acronym is the name of an organization, that I'ld also like to link to. Nesting link/acronym tags doesn't produce very satisfactory results, using just the title field of the link also isn't exactly nice as it looses the contextual markup of the acronym. (I'm thinking of writing a script to pull all acronyms out to a seperate glossory page, so I like having teh acronymn tags there...)
Has anyone found any good solutions to this problem?
Current solutions I'm considering:
using a "a acronym" selector to turn off most of the formatting of the acronym inside a link, but retain the title within the acronym tag
using CSS2 to make generated content, maybe a superscripted [?] as the acronym expansion
Your thoughts?
[example page at http://compinabox.sourceforge.net. YCN, USABDA, and NDCA should all be linked as well as acronyms. The intial CIB does not need a link as it would simply link back to this page.]
Has anyone found any good solutions to this problem?
Current solutions I'm considering:
using a "a acronym" selector to turn off most of the formatting of the acronym inside a link, but retain the title within the acronym tag
using CSS2 to make generated content, maybe a superscripted [?] as the acronym expansion
Your thoughts?
[example page at http://compinabox.sourceforge.net. YCN, USABDA, and NDCA should all be linked as well as acronyms. The intial CIB does not need a link as it would simply link back to this page.]