Question

From my time on SO I’ve found w3schools may not be the best place to send people as an html/web programming reference. I started using them a loooong time ago and have been sending people there for years because of their usage of programming categories and tutorials.

I know I can go there and easily find out what different tags are available for use(though it may not be correct) and I can find out attributes to tags easily. Are there any alternatives that can provide the same simple reference and tutorials as they do? Where should I refer people too?

Answer 1

• blooberry.com
• MSDN (HTML & CSS section)
• HTML 4.01 Reference
• WHATWG’s HTML 5 Reference

W3Fools – A W3Schools Intervention also promotes the following “more reputable sources”:

Opera Web Standards Curriculum covers the basics of web standards-based design in HTML and CSS.
Google’s HTML, CSS, and Javascript from the Ground Up presents the basics of web development with video tutorials presented by Google’s expert web developers.
SitePoint is a pretty good reference for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Their documentation always mentions feature support across different browsers, and describes known browser bugs.
The W3C, itself, has a wiki-based general Learn page as well as an HTML element reference.
The MDN (Mozilla’s Developer Network) takes over at intermediate CSS and covers JavaScript better than anyone.
The MDN is also a wiki (little known fact), which means we, as knowledgeable web developers, can add or change information so the pages are as effective and comprehensive as possible.