HTML element

Have you ever played with building blocks before? Well, just like building blocks, a website is made up of lots of different pieces that fit together to make the whole thing. One of those pieces is called an "element" and it's like a special type of building block.

An element in a website is a little piece of code that tells your computer how to show something on the screen, like a picture or a piece of text or a button. Each element has its own name, kind of like how each building block might have a different shape or color. For example, there's an element called "image" that's used to show pictures, and there's an element called "paragraph" that's used to show text.

When we want to use an element in our website, we write a special code called HTML that tells the computer what element we want to use and how we want to use it. It's like giving instructions to a builder on how to use their building blocks.

For example, let's say we want to use the "image" element to show a picture of a dog. We would write something like this in our HTML code:

<img src="pictureofdog.jpg" alt="A cute dog">

This code tells the computer to use the "image" element and to show the picture of the dog that's stored in a file called "pictureofdog.jpg". The "alt" part of the code is like a backup plan in case the picture doesn't load properly - it tells the computer to show some text that says "A cute dog" instead.

So, in short, an HTML element is a special building block that we use to show different things on a website, and we write special code called HTML to tell the computer what element we want to use and how to use it.