It is a building block of a web page.
It has three main parts:
- Opening tag – shows where the element starts.
- Content (optional) – the text or information inside the element tag.
- Closing tag – shows where the element ends.
Example of an HTML element (paragraph tag):
<p>This is a paragraph</p><p> → opening tag of the HTML element
</p> → closing tag of the HTML element
This sentence is an HTML element, which appears on the webpage.
Some HTML elements are self-closing, meaning they do not have any content.
Example of a self-closing HTML element:
<img src="image.jpg" alt="HTML image example" />