HTML Elements
An HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag as well as the content inside.
<tagname>Content goes here...</tagname>
HTML elements can be nested (this means that elements can contain other elements).
HTML elements with no content are called empty elements, eg. <br> , <hr> etc.
HTML tags are not case-sensitive which means <P> is the same as <p>
Common HTML Elements:
| Element | Reference |
<html> | represents the root (top-level element) of an HTML document |
<head> | contains machine-readable information (metadata) about the document |
<body> | represents the content of an HTML document |
<h1> to <h6> | represent six levels of section headings |
<p> | represents a paragraph |
<ul> | represents an unordered list of items |
<a> | together with its href attribute, creates a hyperlink to web pages |
<span> | a generic inline container for phrasing content |
<img> | embeds an image into the document |
<script> | used to embed executable code or data; typically refers to JavaScript code |
<table> | represents tabular data |
<form> | represents a document section containing interactive controls for submitting information |