HTML Elements

What is HTML Elements?

Elements are the basic structure for HTML markup. Elements have two basic properties: attributes and content. Each attribute and each element's content has certain restrictions that must be followed for an HTML document to be considered valid. An element usually has a start tag (e.g. <element-name>) and an end tag (e.g. </element-name>). The element's attributes are contained in the start tag and content is located between the tags (e.g. <element-name attribute="value"> Content </element-name>). Some elements, such as <br>, do not have any content and have no closing tag.

Example

<span id="myId" class="myclass" style="color:blue;" 
title="a2zwebhelp">A2ZWebHelp </span>

Head elements

<title>…</title>: Define a document title. This element is required in every HTML document. Web browsers usually display the title in a window's title bar when the window is open, and in the task bar when the window is minimized.

<title> My Home Page </title>

<link>: Specifies links to other documents. To Link an external stylesheets you can write:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="path to file">

<script>…</script>: Used to add JavaScript or other scripts to the document.

<script language="javascript" >…</script>

<style>…</style>: Specifies a style for the document.

<style type="text/css">…</style>

<meta>: Can be used to specify additional metadata about a document, such as author, publication date, expiration date, page description, keywords, or other information not provided through the other header elements and attributes. Because of their generic nature, meta elements specify associative key-value pairs. Meta elements can specify HTTP headers which should be sent before the actual content when the HTML page is served from Web server to client: for example,

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

HTML Elements with category