HTML - Tag vs. element

What's the difference between a tag and an element?


The tag is part of the element.

<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<h1> is the start TAG
</h1> is the end TAG

h1 is the TAG name

The ELEMENT is the entire line. It includes the start tag, attributes, values, content, and end tag.


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