HTML elements are written with a starting tag, an ending tag, and the content in between:

• <tagname>content</tagname>

The HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag:

• <p>My first HTML paragraph.</p>

Opening tags look like this: <h1>, and closing tags look like this: </h1>

• Note that the only difference between opening tags and closing tags, is that closing tags have a slash after their opening angle bracket. The slash in the closing tag is very important because it indicates that the tag is the end of the element.