HTML Elements and Nesting

What Is It?

An element tells the browser what a piece of content is. Nesting means putting one element inside another.

What the Tags Mean

• p: a paragraph.
• strong: important words.
• br: a line break; it has no closing tag.

Example 1

Save each example as index.html and open it in your browser. Each code block is a complete page.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>HTML Elements and Nesting</title>
 
</head>
<body>
<p>I am learning <strong>HTML</strong>.</p>
</body>
</html>

What you see: You see a sentence. HTML is usually bold because it is inside strong.

Example 2: Another Use

Use nesting to put a link inside a paragraph.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>HTML Elements and Nesting</title>
 
</head>
<body>
<p>Read the <a href="#notes">notes</a>.</p>
<h2 id="notes">My notes</h2>
</body>
</html>

Simple Tip

Close the inner tag first: strong closes before p in the first example.

Try It Yourself

Put your own name inside strong.