<rt>

The HTML <rt> element embraces pronunciation of characters presented in a ruby annotations, which are used to describe the pronunciation of East Asian characters. This element is always used inside a <ruby> element.

Content categories	None.
Permitted content	Phrasing content.
Tag omission	The end tag may be omitted if the <rt> element is immediately followed by an <rt> or <rp> element, or if there is no more content in the parent element
Permitted parents	A <ruby> element.
Permitted ARIA roles	Any
DOM interface	HTMLElement

Attributes

This element only includes the global attributes.

Example

<ruby>
  漢 <rt>Kan</rt>
  字 <rt>ji</rt>
</ruby>

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard The definition of '<rt>' in that specification.	Living Standard
HTML5 The definition of '<rt>' in that specification.	Recommendation

Browser compatibility

See also

• <ruby>
• <rp>
• <rb>

• <rtc>