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HTML - Elements: Start Tag Content End Tag

HTML elements are defined by starting and closing tags. Elements like <p> contain content between opening and closing tags, while void elements like <br> do not require closing tags. HTML documents form a tree structure of nested elements that specify how content should be organized. Elements group content and tags define the start and end of elements.

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HTML - Elements: Start Tag Content End Tag

HTML elements are defined by starting and closing tags. Elements like <p> contain content between opening and closing tags, while void elements like <br> do not require closing tags. HTML documents form a tree structure of nested elements that specify how content should be organized. Elements group content and tags define the start and end of elements.

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HTML - Elements

An 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 −

Start Tag Content End Tag

<p> This is paragraph content. </p>

<h1> This is heading content. </h1>

<div> This is division content. </div>

<br />

So here <p>....</p> is an HTML element, <h1>...</h1> is another HTML element. There are
some HTML elements which don't need to be closed, such as <img.../>, <hr /> and <br />
elements. These are known as void elements.

HTML documents consists of a tree of these elements and they specify how HTML documents
should be built, and what kind of content should be placed in what part of an HTML document.

HTML Tag vs. Element

An HTML element is defined by a starting tag. If the element contains other content, it ends
with a closing tag.

For example, <p> is starting tag of a paragraph and </p> is closing tag of the same paragraph but
<p>This is paragraph</p> is a paragraph element.

Nested HTML Elements

It is very much allowed to keep one HTML element inside another HTML element −

Example
Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Nested Elements Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>This is <i>italic</i> heading</h1>
<p>This is <u>underlined</u> paragraph</p>
</body>

</html>

This will display the following result −

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