HTML Element
What is Element in HTML?
HTML element is defined by a starting tag.
If the element contains other content, it ends with a closing tag, where the element name is preceded by a forward slash as shown below with few tags:
HTML Elements
Start Tag | Content | End Tag |
---|---|---|
<html> | This is html element | </html> |
<p> | This is paragraph content | </p> |
<h1> | This is heading content | </h1> |
<div> | This is division content. | </div> |
Nested HTML Elements
All HTML documents consist of nested HTML elements.
The <html> element is the root element and it defines the HTML document.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Hello World!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
<p>This is a simple "Hello World" website.</p>
</body>
</html>
Body tag
The <body> element defines the document's body.
The <body> element includes all the contents of an HTML document, consisting of headings, paragraphs, links, tables, lists, etc.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
</body>
</html>