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<p>An <strong>element</strong> is a part of a Web page or document. 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 might contain a data item or a piece of a Web page such as a chunk of text or an image. A typical element includes an opening tag, attributes, content and a closing tag.</p>
<p>Element and tag are often used interchangeably though they are different: the tags (opening and closing) is the way to delineate an element in the source; the element is a part of the {{Glossary("DOM")}}, the model of the document used to display the page in the browser.</p>
<h2>See also</h2>
<ul>
 <li>The {{domxref("Element")}} interface, representing an element in the DOM.</li>
 <li><a href="/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Element">More details about elements.</a></li>
</ul>