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HTMLElement and other element types

All HTML interfaces extends from the base HTMLElement interface. This means there's a separate interface for HTMLAnchorElement, HTMLButtonElement, HTMLOptionElement, etc.

However there's a few elements that don't have their own interface, because they have no additional requirements.

The basic interface, from which all the HTML elements' interfaces inherit, and which must be used by elements that have no additional requirements, is the HTMLElement interface. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#elements-in-the-dom

That's why there's no HTMLNavElement, HTMLAsideElement, and more.

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HTMLElement and other element types