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What is the difference between HTML elements and tags?

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    What is the difference between HTML elements and tags?

    What is the difference between HTML elements and tags? And, do most people use these correctly in HTML?

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    raypal

    raypal

    A tag in HTML is a representation of an element in the serialized form of an HTML document
    An element is an object in the hierarchical model of a document.
    11 years ago
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    dennis123

    dennis123

    HTML tag is just opening or closing entity. For example:

    <p> and </p> are called HTMl tags

    HTML element encompasses opening tag, closing tag, content (optional for content-less tags) Eg:

    <p>This is the content</p> : This complete thing is called a HTML element
    11 years ago
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    AjayPrasad

    AjayPrasad

    Tags are used to markup the opening and closing of an HTML element.Ex-
    <p></p>

    An element in HTML is content between html tags. Ex-
    <p> This is paragraph element</p>
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    renoldscott

    renoldscott

    I agree with dennis123.
    11 years ago
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    postcd

    postcd

    I would say tag is part of the code

    like

    <h1>...<h1>
    <p>...</p>

    and element is path to some file like image (.jpg), javascript (.js), style sheet (.css)
    anirban09P

    anirban09P

    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:

    <p>This is the content of the paragraph element.</p>

    HTML tags

    Tags are used to mark up the start and end of an HTML element.

    <p></p>
    10 years ago
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