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HTML Elements

An HTML element is the start tag, the content, and the end tag.

Start tagContentEnd tag
<h1>My Heading</h1>
<p>A paragraph</p>

Elements can be nested: an element can contain other elements.

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Empty elements

Some elements have no content and no end tag, such as <br> (line break) and <hr> (horizontal line).

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Quick check

Which of these is an empty element?

Finish the quick check (and any code exercise) to complete this lesson, or mark it done yourself.

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