What are webpage elements?

Answer 1

The HTML elements are the parts of a web page.

With a text editor or the "view source" on a web browser, you can see that a web page is composed of a series of HTML elements.

For example, perhaps the most common XHTML element is the p element.
Here is an example p element as it looks in a text editor:

Hello, world.

The "

" tag is the "begin paragraph" tag -- the "p" tells us this is a p element.
The "Hello, world." in this paragraph is the content of this p element.
The "

" tag is the "end of paragraph" tag.
Some elements also contain "attributes" (inside the tag).

Unlike chemical elements, one HTML element can contain several nested elements.

(Should I give an example here? Or just refer to some other wikiquestion?)

For a complete list of HTML elements, see the "related links".