HTML tags and elements

What are Elements and Tags?

In the world of HTML, "elements" and "tags" are terms that are often used interchangeably, but have slightly different meanings.

Tags: are the labels you use to start and end an element. They are like assembly instructions that tell the browser how to display the content. A tag always comes in angle brackets, such as <tag> for the beginning and </tag> for the end.

Elements: An element is everything between the opening and closing tags, including the tags themselves. For example, in <p>This is a paragraph</p>, the entire string is a paragraph element.

Header tags: Headings in HTML are like the titles and subtitles of a newspaper. They help to organise the content and give an idea of what the section below is about. There are 6 levels of headings, with <h1> being the largest and most important, and <h6> the smallest and least important.

For instance,

<h1>This is a Great Title</h1>
<h2>This is a Subtitle</h2>

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