Rarely-Used Tags Of HTML 5

Nowadays in the programming world, there are numerous choices to implement new things with fewer and easier steps. There are many tags which are used in rare cases while we are programming for special functions or queries. It will leave a good impact of uniqueness also. Some of them are - <abbr>, <acronym>, <address>, <cite>, <fieldset>, <kbd>, <legend>, <label>, <ins><del>, <rel>, <meter>, <optgroup>, <wbr>.

<abbr>

In HTML 5, <abbr> tag is the latest title.

When the mouse curser is hovered on the title, it will display a full description in the tooltip form.

This element includes Global Attribute like: title.

Tag omission is not allowed and both opening and closing tags are required to avoid errors.

<acronym>

In HTML 5, <acronym> is not supported. In that case, we use the <abbr> tag.

The <acronym> tag is compatible in any browser as well as it is used to abbreviate the full form of the title which is placed between this tag, when the mouse is over the title.

The <address> tag basically provides contact information regarding an author or owner of the organization or document or an article. When we provide contact details of an article, we must use the <address> element. We can use it in <body> element.

<address> tag always returns the value in italics.

<cite>

The <cite> tag is the citation element of HTML. Citation is the term which means a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work. As all of use know about the <blockquote>, it’s just similar to it. When we want to give italics expression, we can use this alternative.

Tag omission is not allowed; both opening and closing tags are required to avoid errors.