Anatomy of an HTML element

Container Element

– An element that can contain other elements or content

– A paragraph (content) contains text Stand Alone Element – An element that cannot contain anything else –

 <br/>, <img/>

Attribute

• Provides additional information about the HTML element
• Class, ID, language, style, identity, source
• Placed inside an opening tag, before the right angle bracket.
  Value
• Value is the value assigned to a given attribute.
• Values must be contained inside quotation marks.

<img src="my_picture.jpg"/>