What is the difference between HTML elements and tags?

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Answer 1

Tags are the actual tags, like <aside> and <p> and <div>, etc. Elements are tags when they're used, like <aside id="aside-1">Hello, world!</aside> or <img src="./image.png" alt="An image.">.

Answer 2

Tags means HTML Tags.

But HTML elements means everything between Tags, including Tags.

Answer 3

Html element consist of all other tags and operation taking place between the html opening tag and closing tag... Html tags are <hmtl></html>