Tutorials

Getting started with the Web is a concise series introducing you to the practicalities of web development. You'll set up the tools you need to construct a simple webpage and publish your own simple code.

Our introductory HTML learning module teaches HTML from the ground up — no previous knowledge required. It sets the stage, getting you used to important concepts and syntax, looking at applying HTML to text, how to create hyperlinks, and how to use HTML to structure a webpage.

An HTML guide for beginners that includes explanations of common tags, including HTML tags. Also includes a step-by-step guide to creating a basic web page with code examples.

Use these challenges to hone your HTML skills (for example, "Should I use an <h2> element or a <strong> element?"), focusing on meaningful markup.

Forms are a very important part of the Web — these provide much of the functionality you need for interacting with websites, e.g. registering and logging in, sending feedback, buying products, and more. This module gets you started with creating the client-side parts of forms.

Optimize web pages to provide a more responsive site for visitors and reduce the load on your web server and Internet connection.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the code you use to style your webpage. CSS Basics takes you through what you need to get started. We'll answer questions like: How do I make my text black or red? How do I make my content show up in such-and-such a place on the screen? How do I decorate my webpage with background images and colors?

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used to style and lay out web pages — for example, to alter the font, color, size, and spacing of your content, split it into multiple columns, or add animations and other decorative features. This module provides a gentle beginning to your path toward CSS mastery with the basics of how it works, what the syntax looks like, and how you can start using it to add styling to HTML.

In previous modules we looked at how to style and manipulate the boxes that your content sits inside. Now it's time to look at how to correctly lay out your boxes in relation to one another, and the browser viewport. This module looks at floats, positioning, other modern layout tools, and building responsive designs that will adapt to different devices, screen sizes, and resolutions.

Target HTML elements, including based on element state, with CSS.

Understanding the browser algorithm to determine which CSS declarations get applied to an element when there are competing declarations, with a specificity quiz

The cascade, specificity, and inheritance control how CSS is applied to HTML and how conflicts between style declarations are resolved.

Here we look at text styling fundamentals, including setting font, boldness, and italics, line and letter spacing, and drop shadows and other text features. We round off the module by looking at applying custom fonts to your page, and styling lists and links.

Common questions and answers for beginners.

At this point we've already looked at CSS fundamentals, how to style text, and how to style and manipulate the boxes that your content sits inside. Now it's time to look at how to place your boxes in the right place in relation to the viewport, and one another. We have covered the necessary prerequisites so can now dive deep into CSS layout, looking at different display settings, traditional layout methods involving float and positioning, and new fangled layout tools like flexbox.

Complete reference to CSS, with details on support by Firefox and other browsers.

Design layouts that fluidly resize with the browser window, while still using a typographic grid.

Flex your CSS skills, and see where you need more practice.

Apply rotation, skewing, scaling, and translation using CSS.

CSS transitions provide a way to animate changes to CSS properties, instead of having the changes take effect instantly.

Learn how to draw graphics using scripting using the canvas element.

In this module, we continue our coverage of all JavaScript's key fundamental features, turning our attention to commonly-encountered types of code blocks such as conditional statements, loops, functions, and events. You've seen this stuff already in the course, but only in passing — here we'll discuss it all explicitly.

What is JavaScript and how can it help you?

Codecademy is an easy way to learn how to code JavaScript. It's interactive and you can do it with your friends.

freeCodeCamp teaches a variety of languages and frameworks for web development. It also has a forum, an internet radio station, and a blog.

In JavaScript, most things are objects, from core JavaScript features like strings and arrays to the browser APIs built on top of JavaScript. You can even create your own objects to encapsulate related functions and variables into efficient packages. The object-oriented nature of JavaScript is important to understand if you want to go further with your knowledge of the language and write more efficient code, therefore we've provided this module to help you. Here we teach object theory and syntax in detail, look at how to create your own objects, and explain what JSON data is and how to work with it.

When writing client-side JavaScript for websites or applications, you won't go very far before you start to use APIs — interfaces for manipulating different aspects of the browser and operating system the site is running on, or even data from other websites or services. In this module, we will explore what APIs are, and how to use some of the most common APIs you'll come across often in your development work.

A comprehensive guide to intermediate and advanced JavaScript methodologies.

For programmers who want to learn JavaScript quickly and properly, and for JavaScript programmers who want to deepen their skills and/or look up specific topics.

An introduction to essential JavaScript design patterns.

Part 1: The Language. Part 2: Working with Browsers.

A comprehensive, regularly updated guide to JavaScript for all levels of learning from beginner to advanced.

A series of books diving deep into the core mechanisms of the JavaScript language.

Documentation of the most quirky parts of JavaScript.

Reliable and in-depth information on ECMAScript 2015.

A JavaScript pattern and anti-pattern collection that covers function patterns, jQuery patterns, jQuery plugin patterns, design patterns, general patterns, literals and constructor patterns, object creation patterns, code reuse patterns, DOM.

A detailed research article describing different modern browsers, their engines, page rendering etc.

A collection of JavaScript videos to watch.

WebExtensions is a cross-browser system for developing browser add-ons. To a large extent, the system is compatible with the extension API supported by Google Chrome and Opera. Extensions written for these browsers will in most cases run in Firefox or Microsoft Edge with just a few changes. The API is also fully compatible with multiprocess Firefox.