HTML elements are structures or behaviors that formulate the HTML document. An element generally consists of 3 parts - a start tag (e.g. <title>), content and an end tag (e.g. </title>).
Elements and tags are not the same.
Elements are case-insensitive, but it is better to use lower case.
Most elements contain a start tag, content and an end tag (e.g. <title>) .
Many elements have no content (e.g. <br>).
Elements without content can be closed by /> at the end (e.g. <br />) though it is not required.
All elements without end tags are closed by the beginning of the next element's start tag.
It is a good coding practice to close all elements with content with an end tag. Most browsers are intelligent enough to format the document without proper end tags and forgive coder mistakes.
Most commonly used HTML elements
Here is a list of commonly used elements for formatting text and styling. More of the elements will be discussed in detail later.
<b>..</b> :
Bold Text Style Element - It makes the content text bold.
<i>.. </i>:
Italic Text Style Element - It displays the content in italic style.
<br> :
Forced Break Line Element - It creates a line break. No content for this element.
<center>..</center> :
Center Alignment Style Element - This aligns the content in the center.
<hr> :
Horizontal Rule Element - It draws a horizontal line. No content for this element.
<p>.. </p>:
Paragraph Element - It formats the content into a new paragraph.
<pre>.. </pre>:
Preformatted Text Element - It displays the content as is. Use this for displaying preformatted text. There is no need to add HTML page breaks or paragraph elements in the content.
<u>.. </u>:
Underlined Text Style Element - This will underline the text within the element.
<font>.. </font>:
Font Element - This sets the font, size and color of text in its content.
HTML Tutorial - Introduction
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the publishing language of the World Wide Web (WWW). Learn about HTML in this tutorial.
HTML - Introduction
