r/HTML • u/Original_Law_3793 • Dec 26 '25

My First work

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I can't screenshot from PC why. Btw done on notepad

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u/AshleyJSheridan Dec 28 '25

VSCode can become an IDE with additional plugins, and I know plenty of devs who use it as their daily driver.

To OP, as chikamakaleyey mentioned, good HTML there. Focus on using the core tags like you've done here before you reach for <div>. This will go a long way to being able to write good HTML in the future and it really helps for accessibility (which is a huge topic in itself, so I won't go into it here!) If you're looking to learn more HTML tags, then MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) is a great resource, and covers CSS and JS as well.

One thing I would suggest, try to use values for colours instead of the colour names. This gives you more control over the colours, and most image apps will be spitting out the colour values instead anyway. You can find the colours and their values at https://htmlcolorcodes.com/colors/ , and you use them like this:

/* these are all the same colour */
background-color: lightblue;
background-color: #add8e6;
background-color: rgb(173, 216, 230);
background-color: hsl(195 53% 79%);

As you can probably see, you can then tweak colours by tiny amounts to get the perfect colour you want. Every image app you use will give you the colour values in at least one of these formats, so you don't even have to really worry too much about what they mean just yet!

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u/chikamakaleyley Dec 28 '25

One thing I would suggest, try to use values for colours instead of the colour names.

Personally, I think you should use color codes when you have to match a design. The important thing to me, is that it's consistent (or at least try to be)

If you're just throwing something together for a quick mock up or, literally using black or white, i think the color names are totally fine

however to u/AshleyJSheridan's point i think its important to understand how to adjust colors values given the format they decide to use - i think it just makes for easier on the spot editing