HTML & CSS Fundamentals: Complete Beginner Course (2026)
Learn HTML and CSS from scratch with this complete beginner course. 10 lessons covering structure, styling, flexbox, grid, and responsive design with practical examples.
If you want to build websites, HTML and CSS are the non-negotiables. HTML defines the structure of a page — its headings, paragraphs, images, links, and forms. CSS controls how all of that looks — colours, fonts, spacing, layout, and responsiveness.
This course takes you from zero to confident with both languages. No prior web experience is required. By the end, you'll be able to build fully structured, styled, responsive web pages from scratch.
Course Lessons
| Lesson | Topic | What You'll Build |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HTML Basics | Your first HTML document |
| 2 | HTML Text Elements | A structured article page |
| 3 | HTML Links & Images | A page with navigation and media |
| 4 | HTML Lists & Tables | A data comparison page |
| 5 | HTML Forms & Inputs | A working contact form |
| 6 | CSS Fundamentals | A styled page with colours and fonts |
| 7 | CSS Box Model | Precisely spaced layouts |
| 8 | CSS Flexbox | Navigation bars and card layouts |
| 9 | CSS Grid | Multi-column page layouts |
| 10 | Responsive Design | A mobile-ready webpage |
Who This Course Is For
This course is designed for complete beginners who have never written a line of HTML or CSS, developers from other backgrounds (Python, Java, etc.) who need to understand the front end, designers learning to implement their own work in code, and anyone who has tried to learn HTML/CSS before but got stuck or lost momentum.
You don't need to install any software to start. A browser and a plain text editor (like VS Code or even Notepad) are enough.
Part 1: HTML (Lessons 1–5)
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the skeleton of every webpage. In Part 1 you'll learn how browsers interpret HTML documents, the most important HTML elements and when to use them, how to structure content semantically for accessibility and SEO, and how to build forms that collect user input.
Start with Lesson 1: HTML Basics
Part 2: CSS (Lessons 6–10)
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is what makes HTML look good. In Part 2 you'll learn how CSS rules, selectors, and the cascade work, the box model — the foundation of all CSS layout, Flexbox — the modern way to build one-dimensional layouts, CSS Grid — the most powerful layout system in CSS, and media queries and responsive design principles.
Jump to Lesson 6: CSS Fundamentals
Tools You'll Need
You need very little to follow this course: a code editor (VS Code is free and widely used), a modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari all work fine), and optionally the Live Server extension for VS Code which auto-refreshes your browser as you type. No build tools, no frameworks, no configuration.
View the full course on the HTML & CSS Fundamentals landing page