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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.

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Example: in <p class="nice">Hello world!</p>, '<p class="nice">' is an opening tag, 'class="nice"' is an attribute and its value, 'Hello world!' is enclosed text content, and '</p>' is 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 .

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