What is an HTML element?

If you want to know about HTML element then this lesson is very special for you.

Because in this lesson, the HTML element has been discussed in detail with examples.


HTML element definition

The HTML element is a component of an HTML document that contains Start Tag, if the element contains Some Content and End Tag.

Understand this with the following example:

<StartTag>Content will be written here...</EndTag>

Example Explanation:

From <Start Tag> to <End Tag> including text is an element.

An HTML element consists of a start tag, content and a last tag.


HTML element as a heading tag

The element used for the heading of the article will look like this:

<h1>My First Heading</h1>

HTML element as a paragraph tag

The element used for the paragraph will look like this:

<p>My first paragraph.</p>

When we start writing a paragraph, we must first write the start tag <p>, write the article of the paragraph after the start tag, </p> Close the element with an end tag.


HTML element's components

Understand this further with the following example:

Start tag Element content End tag
<h1> My First Heading </h1>
<p> My first paragraph. </p>
<br> none none

Note:

Some HTML elements do not have content, as can be seen <br> in the example above, these are empty elements, Empty element does not have an end tag.