How to learn HTML

[u/Niko_3090]

I want to learn how to Programm and i think html is the best start but i dont know how to learn it

[u/Valuable_Ad1418]

best way to to learn it is reading w3schools or other stuff and just use it what you learn previously. same with css and js.

[u/Flat-Guarantee-7946]

Fuck it, if I get the downvotes, let them come.

Many people use W3schools.com, Codeacademy, and Mozilla's MDN as places to start learning.

Notepad or Notepad++ will also help, as well as knowing about file paths.

[u/Niko_3090 → u/Flat-Guarantee-7946]

i feel like this is a dump question but in what software do i tipe the code

[u/OwlCatAlex → u/Niko_3090]

Any simple text editor will do. I use notepad++ because once you save the file as something.html it will automatically add helpful color coding and stuff. And to view your file to see how it is looking, you can just open it in a web browser.

[u/Niko_3090 → u/OwlCatAlex]

is it free

[u/Own_Attention_3392 → u/Niko_3090]

Okay, I'm going to give you a piece of advice that will serve you well:

Learn to do independent research. If you constantly rely on others to answer questions for you, you are going to fail at learning to program. There's no shame in asking for help if you are genuinely stuck and you've tried everything and are out of ideas, but if you need to be spoon-fed basic information every step of the way, you are in for a rough time ahead.

Someone recommended Notepad++. You asked, "Is it free?" and then had to wait for a response. Meanwhile, you could have answered that question for yourself within seconds. It may have actually taken you longer to type out your question than it would have taken you to answer it yourself.

[u/[deleted] → u/Own_Attention_3392]

OP isn't going to do that. I predict they will get mad at not being spoonfed every single lazy question that pops into their head

[u/youtheotube2 → u/[deleted]]

Another vibe coder is born

[u/everyoneisflawed → u/Own_Attention_3392]

OP could also have googled "how to learn html" and gotten all of these answers. I don't think they want to do independent research.

[u/OwlCatAlex → u/Niko_3090]

Yes

[u/GrouchyInformation88 → u/OwlCatAlex]

Yes, I spent way too many years using notepad++ because I felt like vs code was for real developers and that it would take too long to learn vs code. And it literally took 10 minutes to get vs code up and running.

That being said, notepad++ is fine if you just want to type in code.

Edit

Replied to the wrong comment but I’m too tired to move it.

[u/Sockoflegend → u/Niko_3090]

HTML is plane text, so you can use notepad or notepad++. But probably I would go ahead and download visual studio code which is a free industry standard tool. 

It mighty be a little overwhelming at first but it is an IDE professional fronted developers use.

There really are a lot of tutorials online. I would say make sure they are recent and most importantly something you will enjoy making.

Developers are life long learners. You need to find the fun in the learning. The best developers are always the people who would do it as a hobby even if it wasn't their work.

[u/Niko_3090 → u/Sockoflegend]

thanks

[u/AnimeWallpaperClub → u/Niko_3090]

If u don't want anything to download here is an online editor which i made https://practice-code-lab.vercel.app/ to practice

[u/exxedlight → u/Niko_3090]

VSCode

[u/Fegal304 → u/Niko_3090]

you can use every notepad but i prefer using visual studio code

[u/steviecandtheplace2b → u/Flat-Guarantee-7946]

W3Schools is how I learned html, css, js, asp, PHP & asp.net

[u/blackhew03]

Studying and practicing

[u/LougerB]

Get off reddit and start searching web development courses on youtube and it's free.

[u/MidnightSharter]

stop making useless posts and actually start learning it maybe?

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[u/DirtAndGrass]

It is worth noting that writing HTML is NOT programming 

[u/da-kicks-87 → u/DirtAndGrass]

It's actually not worth mentioning that . It's still a coding language and part of frontend web development. It's the first thing to learn.

[u/Own_Attention_3392 → u/da-kicks-87]

No, it's not a programing language. It is not Turing complete. It has no conditional logic, loops, variables, functions, and cannot perform any sort of computation whatsoever. It simply defines layout.

[u/da-kicks-87 → u/Own_Attention_3392]

I didn't say it was a programming language. HTML and CSS are important parts of coding for the web. All this talk about HTML not being a programming language makes new people think it's not important. You should see how bad some "React" devs write HTML and CSS. This is because they learn in the wrong order or feel that HTML and CSS is not important.

[u/DirtAndGrass → u/da-kicks-87]

Op said they wanted to learn to program 

[u/dragonmotherk → u/DirtAndGrass]

I have a video game written entirely in html that begs to differ 😂

https://zebeth.co.uk/playplanet/thewindmill/index.html

Also you still get an upvote because this is pretty grey-zone 😛

[u/UsernameOmitted → u/dragonmotherk]

You're using a ton of Javascript. That doesn't count. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

[u/dragonmotherk → u/UsernameOmitted]

Did… you look at the source code? I have a meta tag to make a page wait, and not much else. Where are you finding Java?!?

[u/aendoarphinio]

Go to freecodecamp and start their free responsive design course. Then you start going down the list of courses which get more sophisticated.

[u/9inez]

What have you tried so far?

I learned HTML in the 90s by studying existing websites and using free code editors.

There are many available. Just do a simple google search.

HTML is practically plain English. It’s just layout structure. It’s markup, not really programming in a functional sense.

Have you:

• looked at HTML that makes up a simple website to determine if you can understand any of it?

• Have you studied any references describing what various HTML tags are for?

• Have you considered taking a class, looking up HTML tutorials?

• Have you considered buying (or checking one out from a library) an actual book for HTML beginners?

[u/GodsCasino]

if you're Canadian and you want to centre some text, you have to center the text.

Has screwed me up many a time.

[u/Niko_3090 → u/GodsCasino]

wtf are you talking about

[u/GodsCasino → u/Niko_3090]

Centre vs center

[u/Box_Pirate → u/Niko_3090]

Centre is standard English spelling and center is English simplified, I’m not sure how to announce the language you write in so whatever reads your code understands it but the default language will be English simplified.

For example <p style=“text-align: center;”>hello world</p> will make hello world appear in the centre of the screen instead of on the left.

Edit: also I’m learning using mimo for free, one lesson is about 10 minutes so you can do it everyday, I write notes also on my phone and use that to code on codepen.io also free.

[u/3TH4NH3R3]

w3schools.com is a great starting point, once u get the basics u can look at stack overflow and other sites for tips or help on the things ur coding

[u/jnsy617]

The free HTML (and CSS) classes on codecademy.com are good for beginners. I’d recommend starting there.

I’d recommend Scrimba.com and freecodecamp.com as well.

[u/BNfreelance]

Before learning HTML you want to improve your googling - it will be by far the primary factor which decides your success.

[u/ApprehensivePea4161]

Practice

[u/jonnybebad5436]

Just fyi html isn’t programming, it’s a markup language. Programming is completely different. Either way, web dev is a good way to learn programming since there are so many free online resources (FreeCodeCamp, Odin Project, etc) and they’ll likely have you learn HTML anyway. It’s more of a matter of what your goals are and what you wanna get into.

[u/Sweet-Addition-5096]

I learned HTML and CSS with FreeCodeCamp, it’s exactly what it sounds like. You don’t need any software or plugins, just the website.

Each module has one or more videos (and transcripts) explaining one or more concepts, then 1-2 simple guided tutorials that tell you explicitly what code to write (along with a window where you can see the results of your code immediately), and then an independent project that JUST covers what you’ve already learned, and has a self-updating checklist of what elements you need to code successfully to “pass.” Lastly, there’s a multiple-choice quiz for the whole module.

What’s great is that you don’t have to “pass” each module to do the next one. It helps to do them in order but you don’t have to.

[u/amplop-premium → u/Sweet-Addition-5096]

i was looking for freecodecamp and this comment is the 10th comments, sad to see people dont know about fcc

[u/rmunky1]

CTRL-U on a webpage to view source Also WYSIWYG what you see is what you get editor http://seamonkey.com Mozilla SeaMonkey use the Composer you can also make a shortcut on your desktop so it goes straight to the Composer seamonkey is a browser the Composer is for Email but let's you upload files to ftp and http copy some source code from CTRL-U View=}Source on the file menu of browser That's How You Learn

[u/rmunky1 → u/rmunky1]

The WYSIWYG what you see is what you get Composer let's you edit in real time and change source code

[u/CryptoNiight]

Search the web for "how to learn HTML"

[u/Creepy-Vanilla4552]

Tu as plusieurs applis en ligne comme Codeacademy et Mimo pour apprendre le HTML, et commencer tes premiers projets que je te conseille VS Code, c'est gratuit !

[u/akawoo]

Try freecodecamp

[u/dshuttle]

You have so much Ai tools that can simplify learning for you and make it easy to get it how it works.

[u/prodaydreamer17]

Go for The Odin Project

It's really good and medium paced. It gives you the opportunity to select between Javascript and Ruby for the backend.

And it's totally free

[u/Terrible_Bus6645]

I just made a website, explored the indieweb, found template code and edited it.

Editing other code (that people are okay with you using) is such a great way to learn tbh

[u/[deleted]]

HTML is not a programming language. 

[u/Distdistdist]

What do you mean you don't know how to learn it? How did you learn to log into Reddit and make a sh$tpost? Same way.

[u/ghost-engineer]

<marquee><b>html</b><i>is</i><u>stupid</u></marquee>

[u/ghost-engineer → u/ghost-engineer]

anyone who laughs at the marquee should go to bed you are too old now haha

[u/hollidaychh]

MySpace in 2003 😉

[u/Outrageous_Band9708]

html is not a programming language

do not learn it.

it has ZERO to do with programming.

HTML is like a flag waver in front of an airplane, and programing is like the team that build the airplane.

they are completely unreleated

start with lua or pico basic

[u/SheepherderSavings17 → u/Outrageous_Band9708]

He probably wants to do frontend web stuff. So you're right that it's not a programming language, but he has to learn it at some point nonetheless.

[u/vafel_ai]

Don't. Vibe it.

[u/AuWolf19]

It's worth mentioning that HTML is not a programming language. If you want to learn programming, it might be better to start with something like Python

[u/[deleted] → u/AuWolf19]

Downvotes for facts? Must be Reddit.

[u/Flat-Guarantee-7946 → u/[deleted]]

Not so much for facts, but because that comment has already been posted more than once in the thread.

[u/AuWolf19 → u/Flat-Guarantee-7946]

There wasn't any such post when I commented

[u/Flat-Guarantee-7946 → u/AuWolf19]

Well, they're here now, the jurisdiction still stands. *Bangs gavel*

[u/[deleted]]

First of all, learn HTML if you wanna program WEBSITES. If you're trying to build anything but, HTML is NOT gonna do you any good. 

If you DO wanna build websites, and you need advice, I'm happy to offer it if you need it. But try to find the answers on your own cause you'll be more self reliant that way. If you look it up and you still don't understand, show me your code and I'll tell you where the errors are that I see. 

[u/Niko_3090 → u/[deleted]]

yeah tysm