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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python
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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

by Anish Chapagain
July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
350 pages
8h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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HTML elements and attributes

HTML elements (also referred to as document nodes) are the building block of web documents. HTML elements are built with a start tag, <..>, and an end tag, </..>, with certain contents inside them. An HTML element can also contain attributes, usually defined as attribute-name = attribute-value, that provide additional information to the element:

<p>normal paragraph tags</p><h1>heading tags there are also h2, h3, h4, h5, h6</h1><a href="https://www.google.com">Click here for Google.com</a><img src="myphoto1.jpg" width="300" height="300" alt="Picture" /><br />

The preceding code can be broken down as follows:

  • The <p> and <h1> HTML elements contain general text information (element content) with them.
  • <a> is defined ...
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ISBN: 9781789533392