<bc>

The self-closing <bc/> tag displays the abbreviation (BC) for the English phrase “before Christ” indicating dates before the Common Era (CE).

Syntax

Attributes

This tag has no attributes.

Children

This tag must be empty (i.e., no children or text allowed).

Parents

This element may appear as an immediate child of the following elements: <alert> <angles> <articletitle> <attribution> <author> <biblio> <caption> <cell> <creator> <date> <dblbrackets> <delete> <description> <em> <entity> <fn> <foreign> <h> <idx> <insert> <instruction> <intertext> <li> <line> <minilicense> <p> <pubtitle> <q> <role> <see> <seealso> <shortlicense> <shorttitle> <sq> <stale> <subtitle> <support> <term> <title> <url> <xref> <year>

Examples