HTML Elements

An HTML element is defined by a start tag, some content, and an end tag:

<tagname>Content goes here...</tagname>

The HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag:

<h1>My First Heading</h1>

From the above code
The <h1> is the start tag
My First Heading is the content, this can be anything you need
</h1> is a end tag

The HTML elements can be classified in three broad categories

Container: They comprise of start tag and end tag
e.g.  this is a para

Nested : They are like container tags but one tag is placed inside the other
e.g. This is a para containing italics

here we can say that the .. tag is nested within  tag

Empty : These tags do not have a close tag
e.g.   or  