Learn HTML & CSS By Building a Facebook Clone

Explore HTML basics, including the head and body structure and elements like h1–h6, p, a, br, ul, li, and tables.

Understand what an html tag is by examining an h1 with a class attribute equal to primary, the content inside tags, and how anchors and images appear in the dom.

Get a quick tour of Visual Studio basics for web projects, including opening files and folders, saving changes, searching and replacing, extensions, source control, and theme and font customization.

Create an html5 boilerplate by setting up index.html with the doctype, head including a title, description, keywords, and a viewport for responsive design.

Discover how to use html text tags like h1 headers, paragraphs, and emphasis tags such as strong to structure content and apply color with containers.

Learn how to create lists in HTML using ordered lists and list items, and nest lists inside other lists to structure content on a web page.

Understand how container tags like divs organize a web page into header, nav, content area, and footer, using padding and styling to separate sections for readable layouts.

Master anchor tags to link pages and files, use href and target attributes to open links in new windows, and wrap content such as headings and images inside the link.

Build data tables with HTML using table, tr, th, and td to structure headers and rows. See how browser styles and switching th to td change appearance and readability.

Build HTML forms with inputs, labels, names, and placeholders; learn get vs post submission, validation, and using selects, radios, checkboxes, and text areas to send data to a backend.

Learn to use link and script tags to load external fonts and JavaScript libraries, link stylesheets, and bring scripts from other sites into your page.

Explains how CSS units work: pixels stay fixed, ems depend on the closest parent, rems reference the root font size, and percentages rely on the parent.

Master CSS selectors to target elements, learn specificity and overrides, and apply practical styles to paragraphs, divs, and classes with descendant, child, and id combinations.

Discover typography basics with css, adjusting font size, text transform, line height, font family, weight, and decorations to style headings and paragraphs for a Facebook clone page.

explore the css box model by showing how content, padding, border, and margin define an element’s space, with padding inside, border around, and margin outside.

Learn how to position elements with static, relative, absolute, and fixed layouts, including top, left, right, bottom, and z-index, and understand parent child positioning.

Break down tasks into small pieces and practice with HTML and CSS, focusing on background, font size, and color, to build a Facebook clone.

Break down the page into sections and boxes, from header with logo and search to the user panel, then map each area to modular HTML and CSS.

Build the header for a Facebook clone by outlining a Visual Studio Code workflow, creating a social media folder, and wiring in the logo, icons, and a search input.

Search for icons from an icon library like Font Awesome, copy HTML and class names, and link the icon font to your page to display icons in the Facebook clone.

Name header sections with classes, style the logo area and icons, and lay out header items with inline blocks while refining fonts, colors, and link styles for a Facebook clone.

Style the top area by adding padding and a background, structure it into top area, profile info, and user image, and apply a circular border radius and hover transitions.

Learn to style the side column and widget boxes in a Facebook clone UI with padding, shadows, rounded borders, circular icons, and a max width for responsiveness.

Finalizes the Facebook clone post box by assembling image, profile, and post icons with comments, and fine-tunes layout, padding, margins, colors, and typography to match the design.