53 stories tagged html, newest first.
37 points by tkgally | 9 comments
A single self-contained HTML page showcasing 500 animated clock designs generated by Claude Opus 5.5, with filtering, search, and time controls.
24 points by tanin | 19 comments
A blog post explaining how a password input with maxlength="20" silently truncated a longer password and prevented the author from logging into Vanguard.
148 points by sea-gold | 45 comments
CSS Bed is a gallery of classless CSS themes, letting users preview the same page in each theme and copy a snippet to use one.
77 points by jjba23 | 15 comments
Blog post walking through parsing Org mode documents with Parsing Expression Grammars using Guile Scheme's (ice-9 peg) module and converting them to HTML.
352 points by bashtian | 150 comments
Landing page for Capsule, a desktop app that packages HTML apps, assets, and user data into a single portable SQLite-based .capsule file.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/8/31/71242a14-9dcc-4066-b2d2-286e6be2e374.jpg)
381 points by keithcarolus | 58 comments
YouTube video from Grow Now! Games showing a walkable ASCII-rendered cyberpunk city built in a single HTML file.
940 points by encyclopedism | 212 comments
A page listing dynamic web functionality, such as popovers, that can now be achieved with plain HTML instead of JavaScript, with accessibility caveats.
546 points by montroser | 550 comments
Blog post complaining that Reddit now requires users to log in to access the plain-HTML old Reddit interface, citing safety.
427 points by ravenical | 124 comments
Ben Myers' 2021 blog post explaining the HTML <dl> description list element, its uses for name-value pairs, and accessibility considerations.
489 points by pretext | 265 comments
An X (Twitter) article by Thariq titled "Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML," about having Claude Code produce HTML documents as output.
319 points by jaden | 93 comments
An article comparing email address obfuscation techniques for websites and their effectiveness against spam harvesters; the page returned a 403 Forbidden error.
445 points by dbushell | 255 comments
Blog post by Paul Hebert arguing that Shadcn's radio button component is needlessly complex compared to the native HTML radio input.
912 points by tanelpoder | 546 comments
GitHub repository for STFU, a small single-page HTML web app by Pankaj Tanwar, MIT licensed and hosted at stfu.pankajtanwar.in.
514 points by todsacerdoti | 171 comments
A short blog post explaining that you can use made-up HTML tag names like <cool-thing> instead of divs with classes, and style them with CSS.
677 points by soheilpro | 254 comments
An HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025 article by Aaron T. Grogg on replacing JavaScript functionality with native HTML features.
522 points by thecr0w | 428 comments
Blog post describing a failed attempt to get Claude to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website from screenshots.
341 points by ulrischa | 166 comments
Homepage of Marko, a declarative HTML-based language and UI framework for building web apps, with links to getting started docs and GitHub.
402 points by FromTheArchives | 212 comments
Blog post by Jim Nielsen listing the essential boilerplate HTML tags to include so a basic HTML file behaves as expected in browsers.
786 points by todsacerdoti | 174 comments
A blog post by Den Odell explaining the HTML <output> element, an underused tag for displaying calculation or user-action results.
391 points by todsacerdoti | 221 comments
A blog post on lyra's blog arguing that modern HTML and CSS features can replace much of what JavaScript frameworks are used for on the web.
580 points by pil0u | 204 comments
Landing page for Hyperclay, a platform for building, hosting, and sharing web apps as single, portable, self-updating vanilla HTML files.
477 points by theandrewbailey | 328 comments
A W3C Quality Assurance tip for webmasters advising against using "click here" as link text and recommending meaningful, context-independent link wording.
1074 points by mudkipdev | 123 comments
An interactive Minecraft-style block-building demo implemented entirely in HTML and CSS with no JavaScript.
1335 points by andrewrn | 613 comments
Plain Vanilla is an explainer site on building websites and web apps with only HTML, CSS, JavaScript and web standards, without build tools or frameworks.
363 points by susam | 336 comments
A Frontend Masters blog post exploring why HTML has no native way to include other HTML files and what the options and history are.
342 points by soheilpro | 246 comments
MDN blog post announcing that browsers are changing default user-agent styles for h1 elements nested inside sectioning elements.
465 points by yevgenyhong | 121 comments
Nash is a self-contained note-taking editor in a single HTML file that can be saved, edited offline, and shared or hosted as static content.
330 points by ksec | 99 comments
GitHub repository for Open UI, a W3C community group effort to maintain an open standard for web UI components and promote its adoption.
406 points by Kerrick | 231 comments
Chrome for Developers blog post introducing the HTML command and commandfor attributes for declaratively wiring buttons to actions like opening popovers and dialogs.
448 points by wxw | 126 comments
A single unstyled web page that demonstrates every HTML element by using each one in self-describing text.
473 points by OuterVale | 93 comments
An HTMHell Advent Calendar 2024 article by Declan Chidlow about how browsers parse arbitrary strings like "Chuck Norris" as HTML color values.
563 points by smusamashah | 177 comments
GitHub repository for Nullboard, a minimalist kanban board app contained in a single HTML file, focused on compactness and readability.
342 points by california-og | 50 comments
Blog post by Max Bo arguing that a single HTML file can serve as a reactive notebook for scientific data exploration, typesetting, and distribution.
325 points by JohannesKauf | 47 comments
GitHub repository for html-to-markdown v2, a Go library and CLI that converts HTML, including entire websites, into Markdown with extensible rules.
355 points by stereoabuse | 301 comments
Blog post arguing that built-in HTML form validation attributes, methods, and properties are powerful but heavily underused, and exploring why.
365 points by ingve | 72 comments
Blog post by Alex Chan describing how he builds small static websites to browse and organise personal local archives like scans, screenshots, and bookmarks.
568 points by blakewatson | 200 comments
HTML for People is a free online guide teaching beginners how to build websites with plain HTML and CSS.
1336 points by fintler | 488 comments
A simple handmade HTML website by a 7-year-old with links to pages about cats, dogs, cheetahs, tablets, and computers over a cartoon animal background.
464 points by maxmcd | 107 comments
A Val Town project page for Static Chess, a chess game implemented as static web pages with each board state as a URL.
673 points by iscream26 | 138 comments
GitHub repository for Monolith, a Rust CLI tool that saves complete web pages, with assets embedded, as a single HTML file.
504 points by Tomte | 124 comments
A guide to using CSS to lay out HTML documents for printing on paper, covering @page, @media print, sizing, positioning, multi-page documents and orientation.
911 points by Kalabasa | 215 comments
Project page for htmz, a minimalist 181-byte HTML microframework for building modular web UIs with plain HTML and no dependencies.
551 points by sohkamyung | 213 comments
Will Crichton's essay arguing PDF limits modern documents and proposing portable EPUBs as an HTML-based alternative, shown in a prototype EPUB reader.
469 points by throwup238 | 351 comments
Zach Holman's humorous 2014 blog post reminiscing about 1990s web development tricks like nesting blink inside marquee tags.
1130 points by programd | 296 comments
arXiv blog post announcing that research papers are now available in HTML format to improve accessibility for users with disabilities.
776 points by soheilpro | 297 comments
HTMHell Advent Calendar 2023 article by Kilian Valkhof showing UI patterns that can be built with HTML and CSS instead of JavaScript.
417 points by goranmoomin | 222 comments
Jim Nielsen blog post arguing web components work differently from React components and are best used to progressively enhance existing HTML.
759 points by tonyennis | 459 comments
HTML First is a manifesto of principles for building web software by leveraging browser defaults, HTML attribute syntax, and view-source to make development easier and more inclusive.
370 points by ducaale | 90 comments
A 2017 blog post recommending developers add dir="auto" to HTML inputs and textareas so right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic display correctly.
909 points by catskull | 418 comments
A blog post arguing that semantic HTML matters more than ever in the age of LLMs, as an open alternative to walled-garden social platforms.
434 points by KodingKitty | 232 comments
A Koding Kitty blog post explaining how the author built their website without frameworks or heavy libraries, prompted by an IndieHackers question.
354 points by GavinAnderegg | 164 comments
Homepage of htmx, a library that gives HTML access to AJAX, CSS transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events via attributes.
899 points by kilovoltaire | 41 comments
Harold Cooper explains how the spinning 3D math diagrams in his earlier post were built using only HTML and CSS, without JavaScript or animated images.