What is the difference between HTML tags and elements

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I notice that most people use the words HTML tags and HTML elements interchangeably    But what is the difference between them    The way I see it is that tags are in the source code and elements are processed tags  by the browser  in the DOM  Am I wrong

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Tags and Elements are not the same   Elements     They are the pieces themselves  i e  a paragraph is an element  or a header is an element  even the body is an element   Most elements can contain other elements  as the body element would contain header elements  paragraph elements  in fact pretty much all of the visible elements of the DOM   Eg    lt p gt This is the  lt span gt Home lt  span gt  page lt  p gt    Tags    Tags are not the elements themselves  rather they re the bits of text you use to tell the computer where an element begins and ends   When you  mark up  a document  you generally don t want those extra notes that are not really part of the text to be presented to the reader  HTML borrows a technique from another language  SGML  to provide an easy way for a computer to determine which parts are  MarkUp  and which parts are the content  By using   lt   and     as a kind of parentheses  HTML can indicate the beginning and end of a tag  i e  the presence of   lt   tells the browser  this next bit is markup  pay attention    The browser sees the letters    and decides  A new paragraph is starting  I d better start a new line and maybe indent it   Then when it sees    it knows that the paragraph it was working on is finished  so it should break the line there before going on to whatever is next    - Opening tag   - Closing tag

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HTML Elements  An HTML element usually consists of a start tag and end tag  with the content inserted in between    lt tagname gt Content goes here    lt  tagname gt    The HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag  Source  HTML Attributes  An attribute is used to define the characteristics of an HTML element and is placed inside the element s opening tag  All attributes are made up of two parts  a name and a value    All HTML elements can have attributes Attributes provide additional information about an element Attributes are always specified in the start tag Attributes usually come in name value pairs like  name  value  Source   HTML Tag vs Element   Elements  and  tags  are terms that are widely confused  HTML documents contain tags  but do not contain the elements  The elements are only generated after the parsing step  from these tags  Source  wikipedia   HTML element  An HTML element is defined by a starting tag  If the element contains other content  it ends with a closing tag   For example  lt p gt  is starting tag of a paragraph and  lt  p gt  is closing tag of the same paragraph but  lt p gt This is paragraph lt  p gt  is a paragraph element   Source tutorialspoint   html elements

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HTML tags vs  elements vs  attributes      HTML elements      An element in HTML represents some kind of structure or semantics and generally consists of a start tag  content  and an end tag  The following is a paragraph element    lt p gt  This is the content of the paragraph element   lt  p gt        HTML tags      Tags are used to mark up the start and end of an HTML element       lt p gt  lt  p gt       HTML attributes      An attribute defines a property for an element  consists of an attribute value pair  and appears within the element   s start tag  An element   s start tag may contain any number of space separated attribute value pairs       The most popular misuse of the term    tag    is referring to alt attributes as    alt tags     There is no such thing in HTML  Alt is an attribute  not a tag    lt img src  foobar gif  alt  A foo can be balanced on a bar by placing its fubar on the bar s foobar   gt     Source  456bereastreet com  HTML tags vs  elements vs  attributes

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http   html net tutorials html lesson3 php  Tags are labels you use to mark up the begining and end of an element  All tags have the same format  they begin with a less-than sign  quot  lt  quot  and end with a greater-than sign  quot  gt  quot   Generally speaking  there are two kinds of tags - opening tags   lt html gt  and closing tags   lt  html gt   The only difference between an opening tag and a closing tag is the forward slash  quot   quot   You label content by putting it between an opening tag and a closing tag  HTML is all about elements  To learn HTML is to learn and use different tags   For example   lt h1 gt  lt  h1 gt   Where as elements are something that consists of start tag and end tag as shown   lt h1 gt Heading lt  h1 gt

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lt p gt Here is a quote from WWF s website  lt  p gt     In this part  lt p gt  is a tag    lt blockquote cite  www facebook com  gt facebook is the world s largest socialsite   lt  blockquote gt    in this part  lt blockquote gt  is an element

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HTML tag is just opening or closing entity  For example    lt p gt  and  lt  p gt   are called HTML tags  HTML element encompasses opening tag  closing tag  content  optional for content-less tags  Eg    lt p gt This is the content lt  p gt    This complete thing is called a HTML element

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This visualization can help us to find out difference between concept of element and tag  each indent means contain    - element          - content               - text               - other elements               - or empty          - and its markup              - tags  start or end tag                   - element name                  - angle brackets  lt   gt                   - or attributes  just for start tag                   - or slash

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lets put this in a simple term  An element is a set of opening and closing tags in use    Element   lt h1 gt     lt  h1 gt    Tag H1 opening tag   lt h1 gt    H1 closing tag   lt  h1 gt

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