Replying to Avatar Daniel Wigton

Not that bizarre. All those other things are called "elements" because the word element just means something like "Essential part" You can have elements of just about anything if they describe the basic building blocks of that thing.
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hodlbod 1y ago

I disagree, elements in all other cases are an abstraction. In html, an element is not a type, it is an instance. It's like looking at a gold coin and calling it "a gold element".

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Daniel Wigton 1y ago

Well, that is a good point. There is probably some defense in calling that gold coin an "element" of a particular payment, in the way that any particular set of tags constitute an element of a particular html document. But yeah, you are right. HTML elements are instances.