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Element

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈelɪmənt/nounCore term

In software engineering, element means: A single building block of an HTML page, such as a paragraph, image or button, usually written as an opening tag, content and a closing tag.

In Turkish: öğe, eleman, element

How it is used

Used constantly in HTML, CSS and JavaScript: you select, style, hide, create and remove elements. Browser developer tools let you 'inspect element' to see its code and styles.

Example sentences

  1. Right-click the button and choose Inspect to see which element is on top.

  2. The script creates a new list element for every comment.

Common collocations

  • HTML element
  • inspect element
  • parent element
  • child element
  • create an element
  • tagA piece of HTML code in angle brackets, such as <h1> or </p>, that marks where an element starts or ends.
  • attributeExtra information written inside an opening HTML tag as a name and a value, such as href in a link or alt in an image.
  • DOMDocument Object Model: the tree of objects a browser builds from a page's HTML, which JavaScript can read and change while the page is open.
  • HTMLHyperText Markup Language: the standard language for describing the structure and content of a web page, such as headings, paragraphs, links and images.

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