Building blocks of HTML

 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.

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>