# HTML elements A to Z HTML elements A to Z: 110 terms, each with what it does and a link to its full page. Updated: October 29, 2026 An **element** is one building block of a web page: a heading, a paragraph, a link, a picture. You write it as a tag in angle brackets, like `

`, and most elements wrap their content between an opening tag and a closing tag: `

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`. Here is every HTML element in the glossary, A to Z. Pick a letter to jump down the list, or pick a tag to read its full page with an example. ## A - [``](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/a): The element that makes a link: click it to go to another page, a spot on the same page, or a file. - [``](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/abbr): The element for an abbreviation or acronym, optionally with its expansion in a title attribute. - [`
`](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/address): The element for contact information associated with an article or the document. - [``](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/area): The element that defines one clickable region and destination in an image map. - [`
`](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/article): The element for self-contained content that could be reused or distributed independently. - [`