A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic
You sometimes find the hooligan element at football matches.
One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags
The elements define the hierarchical structure of a document The majority of elements have opening and closing pointers Within these pointers, pieces of text or even the whole document being written can be found There are empty elements which contains only opening pointers without any content
Simple substance which cannot be resolved into simpler substances by normal chemical means Because of the existence of isotopes of elements, an element cannot be regarded as a substance which has identical atoms, but as one which has the same atomic number WebElements™ Periodic table
A particular element of a situation, activity, or process is an important quality or feature that it has or needs. Fitness has now become an important element in our lives. = factor
A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen
A unit of structure in an HTML document; many elements have start and stop tags; some have just a single tag; some elements can contain other elements
the most favorable environment for a plant or animal; "water is the element of fishes"
The elements define the hierarchical structure of a document The majority of elements have opening and closing pointers Among these pointers, pieces of text or even the whole document being written can be found There are empty elements which contains only opening pointers without any content
An element is a piece of data within a document that may contain either text or other subelements such as a paragraph, a chapter, and so on
one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe; "the alchemists believed that there were four elements
Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons
A component of the hierarchical structure defined by a document type declaration or DTD It is identified in a document instance by descriptive markup, usually a start-tag and end-tag, shown as: <element_type_name attribute=value attribute=value> content of the element </element_type_name>
An element is a document structuring unit declared in the DTD The element's content model is defined in the DTD, and additional semantics may be defined in the prose description of the element
An element one of the basic chemical ' building blocks' for example oxygen or hydrogen Each element has characteristics which identify it as such For more information on elements and their properties visit the Sheffield University Chemistry department page
An element is a unit of a document marked up in XML, SGML, or HTML Elements can be considered as boxes, each of which contains text and/or other boxes Elements can be identified by the tags that encapsulate them Tags surrounding an element will be labelled with the element name Sometimes attributes are given to element to provide more information about them
If something has an element of a particular quality or emotion, it has a certain amount of this quality or emotion. These reports clearly contain elements of propaganda
The element in an electric fire or water heater is the metal part which changes the electric current into heat