Back in the mid 00s I learned HTML basically from trial and error. Write some tags, save, refresh page and see how things look. That followed by verifying how c

Back in the mid 00s I learned HTML basically from trial and error. Write some tags, save, refresh page and see how things look. That followed by verifying how correct it was with the w3c validator with strict mode. Also lots of changing css styles to *{border: 1px solid #000} to see how things were out of wack. I'm sure there's a somewhat better way than just dealing with trial and error and figuring out how css plays with html through the same manner & validating, but for the patient, it works out. Thankfully now, browsers come with good editing tools to see html elements without crappy css hacks. I've always seen universities pushing GUI tools on students to learn HTML, but I really don't think that's the best way to do it. Showing them how the tags work, what they are for and using tools such as firebug is a much better way imho.