HTML Elements Explained with Examples

Most HTML elements have an opening tag and a closing tag.

Opening tags look like this: <h1> and Closing tags look like this: </h1> .

Note that the only difference between opening and closing tags is that closing tags have a slash after their opening angle bracket.

There are also some HTML elements that are self-closing.

For example, the image tag <img /> and the input tag <input /> .

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