Nested HTML Elements
HTML elements can be nested (this means
that elements can contain other elements).
All HTML documents consist of nested
HTML elements.
The following example contains four
HTML elements (<html>, <body>,
<h1> and <p>):
Tag |
Description |
<html> |
Defines
the root of an HTML document |
<body> |
Defines
the document's body |
HTML Elements
The HTML element is everything from the
start tag to the end tag:
<tagname>Content
goes here...</tagname>
Examples of some HTML elements:
<h1>My
First Heading</h1>
<p>My
first paragraph.</p>
Start
tag |
Element
content |
End
tag |
|
<h1> |
My
First Heading |
</h1> |
|
<p> |
My
first paragraph. |
</p> |
|
<br> |
none |
none |
|
<h1> to <h6> |
Defines
HTML headings |
||