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Web Design Playground

As explained in Web Design Playground, Second Edition

Web Design Playground is an online interactive environment for editing HTML and CSS, previewing rendered results, and working through related lessons and exercises.

Web Design Playground is an online workspace for experimenting with HTML tags and CSS properties, previewing browser-like results, and learning through guided lessons and activities. section 1.5

A typical experiment follows this cheerful little loop:

  • Type HTML tags and any required attributes in the HTML editor. section 1.5
  • Enter CSS property definitions in the CSS editor. section 1.5
  • Check the Results box to see how the code renders in a web browser. section 1.5
  • Repeat the process to fix problems or try different values. section 1.5

Load, tweak, and play

Choose a lesson to load its introduction, examples, and activities automatically. Then change the supplied HTML or CSS, inspect the result, save the work, or download the resulting files. section 1.5

Figure 1.5 The Web Design Playground lets you play with HTML and CSS online.

The interface view makes the playground’s central promise visible: edit HTML and CSS online, then see the rendered result. section 1.5

How Web Design Playground, Second Edition covers it

How deep it goes
Details an edit-preview-repeat workflow and lesson loading, while focusing on use rather than implementation internals.
Examples
Uses editable lesson examples, activities, construction kits, saved work, and downloadable HTML and CSS files.
What you can do after
Apply HTML and CSS experiments via the Web Design Playground, preview results, load lessons, save work, and download files.
How it connects
Connects HTML structure with CSS presentation through browser-rendered results.

Related concepts

This explainer was generated by Manning's knowledge graph from the text of Web Design Playground, Second Edition. The section links point to the parts of the book it draws on.