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by otteromkram 620 days ago
Mozilla has amazing documentation that's been around for years.

Here's their basic html tutorial section: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML

No one is or has been stopping people from learning HTML.

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HTML for People is waaaay more approachable than this. My wife could follow the HTML for People tutorial. It shows you how to create a real web page in a real browser without first bogging you down in coding details.

The MDN tutorial is talking about img alt attributes before you even create a single .html file! That's how to put people off.

As a technical person who recently taught myself frontend from scratch, I found https://web.dev/learn way more structured and thorough. The CSS lesson covers all the essentials and actually made me enjoy working with CSS.

web.dev doesn't get as much love as MDN, but it totally should!

This is how I've been learning html + css. It's been fantastic and I treat it as THE docs for the web.

I'm very proud of my single file html document for reporting results.

Of course no JS!

Super approachable. (sure Jan meme.gif)
That’s the website my high school used in engineering sciences classes to give students an introduction to HTML. I don’t see the point of your comment (I think it’s sarcasm, but I’m not even sure), can you be a little bit more constructive?
The point may be that OP's guide is not meant for high school/engineering students, it is meant for everyone. MDN's "introductory" sections have too many big words to be of use to laypeople.