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Glossary Term

HTML dfn element

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The <dfn> HTML element indicates a term to be defined. The <dfn> element should be used in a complete definition statement, where the full definition of the term can be one of the following:

The ancestor paragraph (a block of text, sometimes marked by a <p> element) The <dt>/<dd> pairing The nearest section ancestor of the <dfn> element,

There are some not-entirely-obvious aspects to using the <dfn> element. We examine those here.

Attributes: The title attribute has special meaning, as noted below.

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