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<VAR>...</VAR>

Description

Used to describe a metasyntactic variable, where the user is to replace the variable with a specific instance. Typically displayed in italics.

DTD

<!ELEMENT VAR - - (%inline;)*>
<!ATTLIST VAR
  %attrs;                              -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --
  >
from the HTML 4.0 DTD, "Copyright © W3C, (MIT, INRIA, Keio). All Rights Reserved."

Attributes

Core attributes: class id style title
Internationalization attributes: dir lang
Events: onclick ondblclick onmousedown onmouseup onmouseover onmousemove onmouseout onkeypress onkeydown onkeyup

Examples

Source
<CODE>rm</CODE> <VAR>filename</VAR> deletes the file.
 
Result
rm filename deletes the file.
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