HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a standard markup language used to create web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure and content of a webpage and is used in conjunction with other technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript to create dynamic and interactive web experiences.
HTML is made up of elements, which are represented by tags. These tags are used to structure and format the content of a webpage. For example, the following are some examples of HTML elements:
<h1>This is a heading tag</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph tag</p>
in the above code there are two things to note,
firstly the entire line of code written above is called an html element and it should be observed that an element must have an opening {<>}and closing tag {</>} the {h1 and p} indicated that the first line of code is a heading while the second line of code is a paragragh and without the closing tag your code will not work.
secondly the word between the opening and closing tag are reffered to as the element content so the tags and the content made up an html elements.