The latest articles on DEV Community by Swapnil Raja (@swapnil_raja). https://dev.to/swapnil_raja https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4056412%2F61c3fd36-78ff-4a02-af27-158da34918d1.jpg https://dev.to/swapnil_raja en Swapnil Raja Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:46:08 +0000 https://dev.to/swapnil_raja/why-i-made-my-html-tutorial-downloadable-as-a-free-pdf-2029 https://dev.to/swapnil_raja/why-i-made-my-html-tutorial-downloadable-as-a-free-pdf-2029 <p>I run a small site called html5andcss3.org where I write simple HTML tutorials for beginners. Over the last year or so I kept getting the same message from readers, again and again: can I download this somewhere? My internet isn't great, or I only have data on my phone, or I want to read this on a flight.</p> <p>I ignored it for a while honestly. Then I just counted how many people had asked, and it was a lot more than I expected. So I took the whole HTML tutorial and put it into one PDF. It's free, no email needed, nothing to sign up for. Here's the <a href="https://html5andcss3.org/html-tutorial-pdf/" rel="noopener noreferrer">HTML tutorial PDF</a> if you want it.</p> <p>It's just the HTML part, not CSS. I kept it separate on purpose so it stays focused on one thing instead of trying to teach everything at once.</p> <p>It covers the basic stuff you need when you're starting out. What a doctype is and why it's there. Head vs body. Paragraphs, headings, links, images, lists. Semantic tags like header, nav, section, article, and why people bother using them instead of just divs everywhere. Forms and the different input types. Tables and when you'd actually want one.</p> <p>I'm not going to pretend a PDF is as good as an interactive course where you can type code and see it run. It's not. But that's not really what people were asking for. They wanted something they could open without needing wifi, something that doesn't disappear if a link breaks later.</p> <p>If you're learning HTML from scratch, or you're teaching someone and want one file to just hand them instead of a bunch of links, the <a href="https://html5andcss3.org/html-tutorial-pdf/" rel="noopener noreferrer">free HTML tutorial PDF</a> might be useful.</p> <p>If you read it and something's confusing or missing, tell me. It came out of real questions people sent me in the first place, so more of that only makes it better.</p> beginners html tutorial webdev