It's an HTML4-ism. In compliant browsers it displays some variety of text decoration with the marked up text. In Mozilla, it's a dotted underline. In IE5 Mac, it's a dotted underline + small caps.

I have NO idea why we're using it - it's the wrong tag for the purpose. The title attribute can go anywhere in proper HTML - it provides descriptive text... IE 5.5 & 6 as well as Mozilla use this as the tooltip text.

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Charles Capps
Programmer, Infopop Corporation
Please do not contact me privately for support - post on the board or open a support ticket instead!