Now Available: “Rote Learning HTML & CSS,” the Most Boring Free Ebook Ever

Published on August 14, 2024 (↻ December 11, 2024), filed under (RSS feed for all categories).

EPUB and PDF, at Leanpub (other options).

Here’s the book that allows you to build or confirm your HTML and CSS knowledge in a way no other book or site allows you to: Rote Learning HTML & CSS.

What’s great is, the book is free, and the source is public.

What’s not-so-great is, the book is boring. Super-boring. (Really.)

Format Ebook (EPUB and PDF)
Price Free!
Preview Select chapters (PDF, 151 KB)
Extras Source code
Length 62 pages (PDF)
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Latest version 1.0.5

Endless lists without explanations. Avoid this book at all costs.

…readers say on Google Play Books.

Description

The cover of “Rote Learning HTML & CSS.”

This is a supplementary—and not beginner-friendly—book about HTML and CSS, and one of the most boring books you’ll ever read.

It contains long lists of HTML elements and attributes and CSS selectors and properties.

Why bother? Why read this book?

Because it provides you with a unique opportunity to learn HTML and CSS, one that isn’t available in this form elsewhere.

Its goal is to show you the rough and raw skeleton of HTML and CSS, so that you can focus on that. Elements, attributes, selectors, properties. No explanations, no examples, no context. The raw material.

The idea is that even when you only review this book once, you will already notice things about HTML and CSS that you weren’t aware of and couldn’t have noticed otherwise.

And still, this is one of the most boring books you’ll ever read. Enjoy.

❧ Many thanks to Martha Martins, who edited this title, as well as to Bert Bos, who was so kind to help answer some W3C-related questions. Thank you!

If you like the book and want to learn more about HTML and CSS (or web development), check out some of my or Frontend Dogma’s books. Or become a patron over at Open Collective. That helps to do freestyle projects like this one.

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About Me

Jens Oliver Meiert, on November 9, 2024.

I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m a frontend engineering leader and tech author/publisher. I’ve worked as a technical lead for companies like Google and as an engineering manager for companies like Miro, I’m a contributor to several web standards, and I write and review books for O’Reilly and Frontend Dogma.

I love trying things, not only in web development (and engineering management), but also in other areas like philosophy. Here on meiert.com I share some of my experiences and views. (Please be critical, interpret charitably, and give feedback.)