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Rafic Faraj
Rafic Faraj
3,008 Points

Coding

. i wanted to know if i wanted to code html and css where can i do it beside this workspaces in treehouse .

4 Answers

Hi Rafic,

You can do it online at sites like codepen and jsfiddle

These are known as online playgrounds. You have panel areas where you can put your html, css, and javascript and then there's a result area where you can see the results. These types of sites differ in features but it's all the same general idea.

You can also develop locally on your own computer. You'll need a text editor to create the html and css files and then you can simply point your browser to the html file and you'll be able to see the results the same as when you click the preview icon in workspaces.

Make sure that you get a text editor and not a word processor. Sublime text is an example of a text editor. Notepad and Notepad++ are also examples of text editors on windows. They are not as fully featured as something like sublime text is.

Doing it locally will be a closer experience to how workspaces works than those online playgrounds I mentioned first.

The online playgrounds are convenient if you want to test something out real quick or if you want to share something you created.

Joe Schultz
Joe Schultz
6,191 Points

You can use a text editor for coding. I recommend Sublime Text.

Here's a couple really good text editors that you can use to code on your own computer:

  • Sublime Text
  • Brackets
  • Atom
  • TextEdit (I don't recommend using this but if you have a Mac this is built-in to your computer)
  • Notepad++ (I also don't recommend using this too but on Windows this app it built-in to your computer)

Actually "Notepad++" is not built-in to windows rather "Notepad' is. Other than that I completely agree with you, Davison.

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is also a very good text editor that can be used.