Elements

An HTML document is composed of a tree of HTML elements. An element is an individual component of an HTML document. Elements denote to the processor structure and semantic meaning of the document. Elements may also be nested or encapsulated within other elements.

HTML
<p>This is a paragraph element.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph element.</p>

Compare this to Markdown:

Markdown
This is a paragraph.

This is another paragraph.

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