November 14, 2022 in Learn
11 Reasons Why You Should Learn HTML & CSS
Today’s workforce continues to become more and more tech savvy, which means having basic web coding skills is useful for many different careers. In fact, you no longer need to become a full-fledged web developer to use HTML and CSS…
September 28, 2022 in Learn
Creating Custom HTML
(Photo by Kenny Louie / Flickr) An exciting feature of the HTML specification is creating custom HTML elements. These allow you to create your own HTML elements along with their own JavaScript API. This can be useful when building interfaces with reused…
September 14, 2022 in Learn
Should I Learn HTML Before JavaScript?
Once you’ve decided to pursue front-end web development, you might be overwhelmed with deciding where you should start. Do you learn HTML or JavaScript first? How long will it take to learn them? What about CSS? The short answer: You…
September 14, 2022 in Learn
CSS vs. HTML: What’s the Difference?
When you start learning about web development, some of the first terms you’ll come across are HTML and CSS. What’s the difference between them and how do they play a role in building websites? We’ll dive deeper into these two…
August 15, 2022 in Learn
HTML-Only Accordion
Accordions are all over the web and mobile apps. They are a great way to show and hide content based on user interaction and aren’t very hard to build but usually require a bit of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Did…
June 7, 2022 in Learn
Should I Learn HTML Before Python?
HTML and Python are two of the most popular coding languages besides JavaScript, and are highly relevant to most development projects. Stack Overflow 2021 Survey However, deciding whether to learn HTML or Python first can be a tough decision…
January 14, 2022 in Learn
Why Converting PSD to HTML is Dead
PSD to HTML tutorials are all over the web. In fact, many people have asked me why there’s not a PSD to HTML tutorial on Treehouse. In addition to the tutorials, there are lots of companies that will accept a PSD…
April 22, 2021 in Learn
Your Introduction to HTML and CSS
Get started creating web pages with HTML and CSS, the basic building blocks of web development. Introduction to HTML & CSS is a 134 minute course from Treehouse teacher Treasure Porth that teaches HTML and CSS for beginners. HTML, or…
February 16, 2016 in Learn
HTML and CSS: Still Relevant for Designers
If you’re a designer trying to stay current you may be feeling some pressure to learn one of the many new web programming languages that are “hot” right now (React, Angular, etc.). Not only because these languages are gaining in…
July 6, 2015 in Learn
Self-Closing Tags in HTML 5 [Guide]
TL;DR: In HTML5 it is not strictly necessary to close certain HTML tags. Tags that aren’t required to have specific closing tags are called self-closing tags. What is a self closing tag? An example of a self closing tag is…
June 2, 2015 in Learn
Why Ionic is Reigniting the Native vs HTML5 Debate
A Little Bit of History Back in 2010 the iPad was released and Josh Timonen and I wanted to build apps for it. Neither of us knew Objective-C and without spending too much time learning a new language we…
December 2, 2014 in Learn
HTML5 Local Storage
HTML5’s local storage feature allows the browser to store and retrieve specific data. In this post, we’ll pick up where we left off in the previous post where we built a real-time CSS editor using the HTML5 contenteditable attribute. Now we’re…