HTML & CSS Playbook

A practical, technique-by-technique reference for solving the recurring problems that come up when building web front ends with plain HTML and CSS. Rather than a single narrative, this is a "playbook" of independent plays — each one a self-contained pattern, recipe, or trick that you can pull out when the matching problem arises. Every technique in this reference is built with no server-side code and no client-side scripting — the goal is to show what pure HTML and CSS can achieve on their own, and where their limits are.

HTML and CSS form such a broad set of topics that the most productive way to build mastery is to accumulate a supply of separate, well-understood techniques — plays you can reach for as a situation demands. This has two benefits: it steadily builds real capability, and it makes the process of building that capability bank more enjoyable, because each play is a self-contained, solvable problem.