HTML elements reference - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN (original) (raw)
This page lists all the HTML elements, which are created using tags.
They are grouped by function to help you find what you have in mind easily. An alphabetical list of all elements is provided in the sidebar on every element's page as well as this one.
Main root
| Element | Description |
|---|---|
| Represents the root (top-level element) of an HTML document, so it is also referred to as the root element. All other elements must be descendants of this element. |
Metadata contains information about the page. This includes information about styles, scripts and data to help software (search engines, browsers, etc.) use and render the page. Metadata for styles and scripts may be defined in the page or linked to another file that has the information.
| Element | Description |
|---|---|
| Specifies the base URL to use for all relative URLs in a document. There can be only one such element in a document. | |
| Contains machine-readable information (metadata) about the document, like its title, scripts, and style sheets. | |
| Specifies relationships between the current document and an external resource. This element is most commonly used to link to CSS but is also used to establish site icons (both "favicon" style icons and icons for the home screen and apps on mobile devices) among other things. | |
| Represents metadata that cannot be represented by other HTML meta-related elements, like , , |