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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.

<img src="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Element/anatomy-of-an-html-element.png" alt="Example: in <p class=&#x22;nice&#x22;>Hello world!</p>, &#x27;<p class=&#x22;nice&#x22;>&#x27; is an opening tag, &#x27;class=&#x22;nice&#x22;&#x27; is an attribute and its value, &#x27;Hello world!&#x27; is enclosed text content, and &#x27;</p>&#x27; is a closing tag." height="181" width="609">

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).

<table><thead><tr><th>Functions</th><th>Documentation</th><th data-hidden></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>getElementById</td><td><a data-mention href="/pages/UUrQwkWwSbXWif60jOFr">/pages/UUrQwkWwSbXWif60jOFr</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>getElementsById</td><td><a data-mention href="/pages/fzyka9fImsjaPBZy6m1S">/pages/fzyka9fImsjaPBZy6m1S</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>querySelector</td><td><a data-mention href="/pages/lLi0F4QhRRqbBaNK4NGI">/pages/lLi0F4QhRRqbBaNK4NGI</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>querySelectorAll</td><td><a data-mention href="/pages/a4cWmyaaRQW714LvUdXs">/pages/a4cWmyaaRQW714LvUdXs</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>appendChild</td><td><a data-mention href="/pages/FxnUgP7HhhjD3oD7dyzX">/pages/FxnUgP7HhhjD3oD7dyzX</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>insertBefore</td><td><a data-mention href="/pages/wnykw2QDpqW5C1pXVL3K">/pages/wnykw2QDpqW5C1pXVL3K</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>removeChild</td><td><a data-mention href="/pages/qIQTFd7XEvqI3JbpL7uJ">/pages/qIQTFd7XEvqI3JbpL7uJ</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>insertAttribute</td><td><a data-mention href="/pages/MTjtbDckztqgJNEacTMK">/pages/MTjtbDckztqgJNEacTMK</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>removeAttribute</td><td><a data-mention href="/pages/wEyDLe76pZIncULmXoZp">/pages/wEyDLe76pZIncULmXoZp</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>cloneNode</td><td><a data-mention href="/pages/j9Zsq4rRBSuldkHMdpT9">/pages/j9Zsq4rRBSuldkHMdpT9</a></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>


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