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Empty Tag
                  Empty tags are standalone tags which are not used in pair. Such tags do not have any ending tag and
                  indicate ‘one time’ instructions. Empty tags represent formatting constructs such as line breaks, inserting
                  images, etc.
                  These tags have only an ON tag. ‘ON’ tag refers to start tag and ‘OFF’ tag refers to close/end tag. The
                  empty tags do not act on block of text but they perform their task at the insertion point only. These tags
                  are also termed as singular tags. For example:

                    <HR>               (It is used as single tag and it inserts a horizontal rule.)
                    <BR>               (It is used as single tag for line break.)
                  Element

                  It  refers to  different  sections that  include  opening  or  closing tag  and  the  content  within  it.  It  is the
                  fundamental component of the structure of an HTML document that includes distinctive components
                  such as body, title, paragraph or list. Elements are similar to the tags, but we can say that all tags in one
                  section together with the text or attributes inside are referred to as elements.
                  An element has three parts:

                    a start tag
                    an end tag

                    content between start and end tags
                  For example:

                              <TITLE>    My First Webpage    </Title>                 Element: It is title element


                               Start tag           Content              End tag
                            (opening tag)                             (closing tag)

                  Here, <TITLE> is start tag and </TITLE> is end tag. "My First Webpage" represents content. This is an
                  example of title element.

                  Attribute
                  An  attribute  is a  property  that  provides some additional  information  about  a  tag.  It  enhances  the
                  functionality of a tag. It is always specified inside the opening tag. All attributes consist of two parts– a
                  name and a value.

                  The ‘name’ is the property that you want to set.
                  The ‘value’ is what you want for the respective property.
                  For example:

                                                     <BODY BGCOLOR="yellow">


                                                 The attribute BGCOLOR has the value yellow.
                  The BGCOLOR attribute of the <BODY> tag is used to add a background colour to the body of the web page.










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