{"json_modified": "2016-03-28T08:40:16.489037", "uuid": "9ba9b95d-c683-4f29-8ce8-dffd8bc52f56", "title": "Element", "url": "/en-US/docs/Glossary/Element", "tags": ["CodingScripting", "HTML", "Glossary"], "translations": [], "modified": "2015-11-21T07:43:41", "label": "Element", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "en-US", "id": 132505, "last_edit": "2015-10-14T05:17:15", "summary": "An <strong>element</strong> is a part of a webpage. In <a class=\"glossaryLink\" href=\"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/XML\" title=\"XML: XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. It is different and in some ways better than HTML which stands for HyperText Markup Language.\">XML</a> and <a class=\"glossaryLink\" href=\"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/HTML\" title=\"HTML: The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a descriptive language specifically designed to structure web pages.\">HTML</a>, an element may\u00a0contain a data item or a chunk of text or an image, or perhaps <a class=\"\" href=\"/en-US/docs/Glossary/empty_element\" title=\"nothing: An empty element is an element from HTML, SVG, or MathML that cannot have any child nodes (i.e.,&#xA0;nested element or text inside an element).\">nothing</a>. A typical element includes an opening <a class=\"glossaryLink\" href=\"/en-US/docs/Glossary/tag\" title=\"tag: In HTML a tag is used for creating an element.&#xA0; The name of an HTML element is the name used in angle brackets such as &lt;p&gt; for paragraph.&#xA0; Note that the end tag's name is preceded by a slash character, &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&quot;, and that in empty elements the end tag is neither required nor allowed. If attributes are not mentioned, default values are used in each case.\">tag</a> with some <a class=\"glossaryLink\" href=\"/en-US/docs/Glossary/attribute\" title=\"attributes: An attribute extends a tag, changing tag behavior or providing metadata. An attribute always has the form&#xA0;name=value&#xA0;(giving the attribute's identifier and the attribute's associated value).\">attributes</a>, a content, and a closing tag:", "sections": [{"id": "See_also", "title": "See also"}], "slug": "Glossary/Element", "review_tags": []}