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High school students staying overnight on the {{abbr|LSD|Louisiana School for the Deaf}} campus can phone their parents using an {{abbr|ASL|American Sign Language}} interpreter. Although fluent in {{abbr|ASL|American Sign Language}}, most students at {{abbr|LSD|Louisiana School for the Deaf}} prefer
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High school students staying overnight on the Louisiana School for the Deaf (LSD) campus can phone their parents using an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter. Although fluent in {{abbr|ASL|American Sign Language}}, most students at {{abbr|LSD|Louisiana School for the Deaf}} prefer texting their
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High school students staying overnight on the {{abbr|LSD|Louisiana School for the Deaf}} campus can phone their parents using an {{abbr|ASL|American Sign Language}} {{abbr|interpreter|Although fluent in ASL, most students at LSD prefer texting their parents directly.}}.
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way for users to access the meaning. A user reading on a mobile device, reading a printout, or listening to a screen reader will likely not have access to the full meaning of the abbreviation and will have no clear indication that the embedded footnote exists.
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typically do not have a mouse to hover with, and so generally cannot see tooltip contents. As of 2023, more English Knowledge (XXG) page views occur on mobile than on desktop browsers.
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High school students staying overnight on the Louisiana School for the Deaf (LSD) campus can phone their parents using an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter. Although fluent in
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way for users to access the meaning. Users reading on a mobile device, reading a printout, or listening to a screen reader will likely not have access to the full meaning.
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If you intend to change this template in any significant way, move it or nominate it for deletion, please inform the bot operators. Thank you. The relevant bots are:
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provide the tooltip. No screen readers for the visually impaired will read the expansion by default; some provide an optional setting to read the expansion aloud.
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test because such a tool can't tell that the logical application of the data to the structure isn't correct, only that tags are nested properly).
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To wiki-link the abbreviation being marked up by this template, wrap the template in the link, or the tooltip will not appear in some browsers.
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In the above example, all abbreviations are expanded via the template, and an entire sentence is embedded via the template. It is the
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will appear as a tooltip in desktop browsers. Mobile devices may display a dotted line or other visual indicator of abbreviation, but
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template is used to write an abbreviation (including an acronym or initialism) with its expanded meaning. It is a wrapper for the
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In the above example, each abbreviation is first expanded in the body text within parentheses. The template provides an
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attribute, so it cannot contain HTML (or markup that resolves to HTML when rendered). This includes simple things like
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In the above example, all abbreviations are expanded via the template. This is discouraged because it is the
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and are intended to be used for navigational and other secondary features where space is limited. See
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is allowed but works more consistently when wrapping the template, see below for linking examples.
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element as reserved for markup of abbreviations. Abusing it for mouse-over tooltips breaks our
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To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's
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Two unnamed (positional) parameters (required) and three named parameters (optional):
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Using it to generate tooltips elsewhere is a misuse of the underlying HTML and causes
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Tooltips should not be used within the body text of an article if possible (see
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For inline cleanup templates requesting definitions or explanations, see
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Knowledge (XXG) uses two separate templates to generate tooltips. The
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applies the specified CSS directives to the content of parameter 1
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An abbreviation or acronym with a tooltip displayed on mouse-over.
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for use with abbreviations (including acronyms and initialisms).
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approximately 855,000 pages, or roughly 1% of all pages
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way for some users to access the meaning later in the text. See
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This template should not be used in citation templates such as
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to mark up abbreviations (including acronyms and initialisms).
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is a separate template sharing the same documentation.
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display in the mobile view of Knowledge (XXG); it is
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Template:Abbrv
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Citation Style 1
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approximately 855,000 pages, or roughly 1% of all pages
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