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HTML Elements

HTML Tags, Elements, and Attributes defined

• HTML documents are text files made up of HTML elements
• HTML elements are defined using HTML tags
• HTML tags are not case sensitive
• Tags can have attributes that provide additional information such as color

What Elements are

So basically HTML documents are simple text files that are made up of a bunch of HTML elements which in essence control the content and how it is used - how it looks, where it is on the page, what it is - that type of thing. In a nutshell, elements control the structure and appearance of the document.

Some examples of elements are headings, lists, fonts, tables, etc. For a complete list of all of the available elements you can use in HTML go to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-HTML40/index/elements.html