Building blocks of HTML

An HTML document consist of its basic building blocks which are:

  • Tags: An HTML tag surrounds the content and apply meaning to it. It is written between < and > brackets.
  • Attribute: An attribute in HTML provides extra information about the element, and it is applied within the start tag. An HTML attribute contains two fields: name & value.

Syntax

<tag name  attribute_name= " attr_value"> content </ tag name>   
  • Elements: An HTML element is an individual component of an HTML file. In an HTML file, everything written within tags are termed as HTML elements.
HTML Building blocks

Example:

    

    <!DOCTYPE html>  
    
    <html>  
    
      <head>  
    
        <title>The basic building blocks of HTML</title>  
    
     </head>  
    
      <body>  
    
           <h2>The building blocks</h2>  
    
           <p>This is a paragraph tag</p>  
    
           <p style="color: red">The style is attribute of paragraph tag</p>  
    
           <span>The element contains tag, attribute and content</span>  
    
      </body>  
    
    </html>

    Output:

    The building blocks

    This is a paragraph tag

    The style is attribute of paragraph tagThe element contains tag, attribute and content


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