HTML elements

An HTML element is is a piece of content (usually text) that is enclosed within tags. The tag name defines what type of content it is and how it should be displayed.

Some common tags you'll use include:

<h1></h1> Defines a Heading

<p></p> Defines a paragraph

<a href="#"></a> Defines an anchor link 

Most HTML elements have an opening, and closing tag, the content sitting between them, for example:

<h1>This is a heading</h1>

<p>This is my first paragraph</p>

however, there are a few tags that don't have a closing tag. for example:

<br> This is used to insert a line break.

<hr> This with insert a horizontal rule.

<img src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1596854407944-bf87f6fdd49e" alt="ginger cat"> the img tag is used to insert and image.