May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Abbreviated titles are usually used only in specific contexts, such as headers and footers, and are suppressed everywhere else.

These elements contain titleabbrev: abstract, acknowledgements, annotation, appendix, article, assembly, bibliodiv, biblioentry, bibliography, bibliolist, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, blockquote, book, calloutlist, caution, chapter, colophon, constraintdef, dedication, equation, example, figure, formalpara, glossary, glossdiv, glosslist, important, index, indexdiv, info (db.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info), itemizedlist, legalnotice, merge, msg, msgexplan, msgmain, msgrel, msgset, msgsub, note, orderedlist, part, partintro, personblurb, preface, procedure, productionset, qandadiv, qandaentry, qandaset, reference, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, relationships, revhistory, screenshot, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, segmentedlist, set, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, table (db.cals.table), task, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, tip, toc, tocdiv, topic, transforms, variablelist, warning.

The following elements occur in titleabbrev: text, abbrev, accel, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, application, author, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citerefentry, citetitle, classname, code, command, computeroutput, constant, coref, database, date, editor, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), envar, errorcode, errorname, errortext, errortype, exceptionname, filename, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), function, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, hardware, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), initializer, inlineequation, inlinemediaobject, interfacename, jobtitle, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, link, literal, markup, menuchoice, methodname, modifier, mousebutton, nonterminal, olink, ooclass, ooexception, oointerface, option, optional, org, orgname, package, parameter, person, personname, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), productname, productnumber, prompt, property, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), remark, replaceable, returnvalue, shortcut, subscript, superscript, symbol, systemitem, tag, termdef, token, trademark, type, uri, userinput, varname, wordasword, xref.