What's the difference between `HTMLElement` and `Element`?

Question

What\'s the difference between HTMLElement and Element ?

document.createElement(\"div\") instanceof Element gives true

Answer 1

HTMLElements inherit from Element which inherit from Node.

This means that your HTMLElement is simultaneously an 'instanceof' all three. The fact that it is an HTMLElement means it has an interface that's contains methods only an HTMLElement would need like attachEvent.