HTML | What is HTML Elements
HTML elements help to create a webpage. It consists of a start tag, some content, and an end tag.
Everything from the start tag to the end tag is an HTML element:
<tagname>Some Contents...</tagname>
Examples:
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
Note: Some HTML elements do not have an ending tag (eg.<br> element) hence it does not contain any content It is called empty elements.
Nested HTML Elements
HTML element can also contains other HTML elements
<html>
<head>
<title>Nested HTML Elements Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is heading</h1>
<p>This is paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
Example Explained
| <html>...</html> | The <html> is the root element for a HTML document. It defines the whole HTML document. |
| <head>...</head> | This tag contains all the metadata for the page, stuff mostly meant for search engines and other computer programs. |
| <title>...</title> | This is used to specify the page name and it appears at the top of the browser window or tab. |
| <body>...</body> | The <body> element defines the visible part of the HTML document. |
| <h1>...</h1> | This is use for heading |
| <p>...</p> | This tag is used to defines paragraph in the HTML document |
Empty HTML Elements
HTML elements with no content and without a closing tag are called empty elements. The <br> tag defines a line break, and is an empty element without a closing tag:
<p>A paragraph with <br> line break.</p>
