HTML Elements
By Saket Bhatnagar••Beginner to Intermediate
elements
- 1HTML elements are the basic units of HTML.
- 2An HTML element consists of a opening tag, content, and an closing tag, and can also contain attributes that provide additional information about the element.
Element = opening tag + content + closing tag. - 4 For example, the following code creates an HTML element called "p" (which stands for "paragraph"), with the text "This is a paragraph." as its content:
<p> This is a paragraph. </p>In this example <p> is the start tag, 'This is a paragraph.' is the content, and </p> is the end tag. The "p" element defines a paragraph of text.
Types of Elements
Block Level Element
- 1These elements will take complete width of the container.
- 2Theses elements will always start from a new line.
- 3We can set Height and Width for the block level elements.
- 4Example: <p> tag, heading tags,<div> tag, etc.
Inline Level Element
- 1These elements will take space required by the content.
- 2These elements will not start from a new line.
- 3We cannot set Height and Width for the inline level elements.
- 4Example: <img> tag, <b> tag,<span> tag, etc.