HTML documents are composed entirely of HTML elements that, in their most general form have three components: a pair of element tags with a "start tag" and "end tag"; some element attributes given to the element within the tags; and finally, all the actual, textual and graphical, information content that will be rendered on the display. An HTML element is everything between and including the tags. A tag is a keyword enclosed in angle brackets.

A common form of an HTML element is:

<;tag>;content to render<;/tag>;

The name of the HTML element is also the name of the tag. Note that the end tag's name starts with a slash character, "/".

The most general form of an HTML element is:

<;tag attribute1="value1" attribute2="value2">;content to render<;/tag>;

By not assigning attributes most start tags default their attribute values. The <;br>; element is an example of a minimal element. (It renders as a newline character.)

Standard Generalized Markup Language, (SGML), defines Document Type Definitions (DTDs). The HTML DTD will define the attribute and content properties of the HTML elements. If an HTML element is unknown to the web browser, it will not be not be rendered. Each HTML element ultimately translates to an action of the rendering engine of the browser, to produce headings, paragraphs, hypertext links, lists, embedded media, a newline character, and a variety of other document structures.

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