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# Elements
An **element** is a part of a webpage. In [XML](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/XML) and [HTML](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/HTML), an element may contain a data item or a chunk of text or an image, or perhaps nothing. A typical element includes an opening tag with some [attributes](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Attribute), enclosed text content, and a closing tag.
Elements and [tags](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Tag) are *not* the same things. Tags begin or end an element in source code, whereas elements are part of the [DOM](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/DOM), the document model for displaying the page in the [browser](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Browser).