Element - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms 编辑

An element is a part of a webpage. In XML and HTML, an element may contain a data item or a chunk of text or an image, or perhaps nothing. A typical element includes an opening tag with some attributes, enclosed text content, and a closing tag.

Elements and tags are not the same things. Tags begin or end an element in source code, whereas elements are part of the DOM, the document model for displaying the page in the browser.

See also

• Getting started with HTML
• Defining custom elements
• The Element interface, representing an element in the DOM.