HTML element
Updated: 10/11/2017 by Computer Hope
With HTML (hypertext markup language), an HTML element is the code between angled brackets, also called tags. The complete tag, including the opening tag, enclosed tag content, and the closing tag, is the HTML element, as shown below.
In the example above, the <a> element defines a hyperlink. An element may also tell the browser how to display text. For example, text in the bold element, denoted with <b> and </b>, displays darker text, whereas the italic element, denoted with <i> and </i>, makes italicized text.