HTML element
In
computing, an
HTML element (instance) in terms of
SGML is the complete sequence of a start tag (with attributes and their valuess), any embedded HTML content, and the end tag. A special case is empty elements that don't have contents and end tags. Due to the constraints of the
DTDss, various parts, including start and end tag, may be omitted in
HTML, but not
XHTML.
It is often misnamed "tag", in an ugly kind of pars-pro-toto.