Elements

An element is a raw value, either as a the assigned value of a field, or an item in a list. They can be any of the fundamental data types.

things = [ 
    "string"
    1
    null
    false
    ''
      Multi-line
      string
    ''
    [ "another" "list" ]
    { text = "another map"; }
];

In the above example, the only parts which are not elements are the two identifiers things and text, everything else is an element, including the map that contains the text identifier and the list that the things identifier is assigned to.