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HO YHAT Rocha Dieu Donné
Courses Plus Student 250 PointsDifference between tag and element
Hello! I would like to ask about the difference between tag and element.Is it the same thing?
6 Answers
Sara Victoria
1,249 PointsSorry it didn't complete all my message.
here is a list of tags...
Basic HTML Tags HTML, HEAD, BODY, TITLE
Paragraphs, Headings, Line Breaks, and Dividers P, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, BR, HR
Character Entity References quotes, ampersands, angle brackets, and non-breaking spaces
Lists OL, UL, DL
Meaning vs. Layout
Formatting and Phrase Elements B, I, EM, STRONG, U, TT, CODE, KBD, SAMP, VAR, SUB, SUP, INS, DEL, ABBR, ACRONYM, BLOCKQUOTE, Q, CITE, ADDRESS, DFN, BDO, PRE, FONT
URLs and Paths
mages IMG
All about Links - Hyperlinks, Buttons, and Bookmarks A
Tables TABLE, TR, TD, TH
Forms FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT, OPTION
Frames FRAMESET, FRAME
META tags META
the element if what is contained with in.
Sara Victoria
1,249 Pointsmy understanding is an element is made up of an opening and closing tag.
HO YHAT Rocha Dieu Donné
Courses Plus Student 250 PointsThanks for your answer but I think I'm still a bit confused
Sara Victoria
1,249 Pointsfor example...
the tag
<p> </p>are tags
but the
<p> words in the paragraph </p>
is the element.
Sara Victoria
1,249 Pointsincluding the tags makes the element.
HO YHAT Rocha Dieu Donné
Courses Plus Student 250 PointsFor example do you mean "<h1>" is a tag and "<h1>My name </h1>" is an element?
jondalar Lee
1,585 PointsThe tag is the code that defines what type of element it is eg:
<html>element</html>
tells the broswer that everything inside this tags is an HTML element. for self-closing tags the element is contained in the tag eg:
<img src="element">
.
An attrubute is code in a tag that discribes the element like an alt attrubute discribes the alternitive text to an image for blind people. eg:
<img src="element" alt="attrubute">
an attrubute is part of the tag but not part of the element.