An XHTML element is the basic building block of an XHTML document. An XHTML element has the following features:

► An XHTML element must have a name.

► An XHTML element may have zero or more attributes.

► An XHTML element may or may not have any content.

Here is a good example of an XHTML element:

<a href="http://www.rendc.org/">rendc.org</a>

The above an XHTML element has:

► A name called "a", which is coded at the beginning of the opening tag.

► An attribute called "href", which is coded inside the opening tag. It also has a value specified after the "=" sign.

► A string of text as the content, which is coded between the opening tag and closing tag.