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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by John Mason Copeland
John Mason Copeland
Courses Plus Student 128 Points

what does create an html element mean

On a challenge question on create a website.

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

This means that you should create a HTML tag, in this quiz, the tag should be:

<html>
</html>

2 Answers

Jake Adams
Jake Adams
1,608 Points
Jake Adams
Jake Adams
1,608 Points

Simply put, it just wants you to add <html></html>

Tom Geraghty
Tom Geraghty
24,174 Points
Tom Geraghty
Tom Geraghty
24,174 Points

Element is a general term that describes an object in your markup. In HTML these are called nodes or elements or referred to by their tag name such as html, div, p (for paragraph), a (for anchor link), etc.

You nest elements inside of one another to create the structure of your document. Everything goes inside of the html element.