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BentOnCoding
BentOnCoding

Reputation: 28148

What is the difference between an HTML Element and an HTML Tag?

What is the difference between an HTML Element and an HTML Tag ? Is there any difference with rendering ? Any there special considerations when using a tag or an element ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 581

Answers (3)

Paul D. Waite
Paul D. Waite

Reputation: 98786

  • <p> is a tag, specifically an opening tag
  • </p> is also a tag, a closing tag
  • <p>This is a paragraph</p> is an element — opening tag, closing tag, and contents

Generally when you’re talking about HTML, it doesn’t really matter which term you use, but if we’re getting technical, the above points illustrate it.

Unless I’m missing something, you can’t use an element without using a tag (because elements are made from at least one tag), and whenever you use a tag, you’ve got an element.

Upvotes: 8

Alan Stephens
Alan Stephens

Reputation: 579

Unless you mean the HTML tag <html></html> which tells the browser this is an HTML document and HTML elements which are everything else as already mentioned.

Upvotes: 1

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 887215

Element and Tag are two terms that generally refer to the same thing.

When programming against HTML, however, Tag usually refers to a string (eg, "<b>...</b>), whereas Element refers to a DOM object representing a tag.

Upvotes: 8

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