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An HTML element is a type of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) document component, one of several types of HTML nodes (there are also text nodes, comment nodes and others). [ vague ] The first used version of HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993 and there have since been many versions of HTML.
For these reasons, and in support of a more semantic web, attributes attached to elements within HTML should describe their semantic purpose, rather than merely their intended display properties in one particular medium.
Some HTML elements are defined as empty elements and take the form < tag attribute1 = "value1" attribute2 = "value2" >. Empty elements may enclose no content, for instance, the < br > tag or the inline < img > tag. The name of an HTML element is the name used in the tags. The end tag's name is preceded by a slash character /. If a tag has no ...
It caused the creation of an embedded but improperly formed description list (the <dl> HTML element): it has a definition, indicated by : (in HTML that's <dd>), but no term (the missing ; element, which corresponds to HTML <dt>). One level deeper, with a sublist item continuing after a sub-sublist, one gets even more blank lines; however, the ...
HTML5 uses a DOCTYPE declaration which is very short, due to its lack of references to a DTD in the form of a URL or FPI. All it contains is the tag name of the root element of the document, HTML. [10] In the words of the specification draft itself: <!DOCTYPE html>, case-insensitively.
Where element names the HTML element type, and attribute is the name of the attribute, set to the provided value. The value may be enclosed in single or double quotes, although values consisting of certain characters can be left unquoted in HTML (but not XHTML). [2] [3] Leaving attribute values unquoted is considered unsafe. [4]
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In HTML DOM (Document Object Model), every element is a node: [4] A document is a document node. All HTML elements are element nodes. All HTML attributes are attribute nodes. Text inserted into HTML elements are text nodes. Comments are comment nodes.