The HTML & CSS Bootcamp 2026 Edition (Udemy.com)
Brand New Course! Covers Flexbox, CSS Grid, Animations, Responsive Design and More! Tons of Exercises & Projects.
Created by: Colt Steele
Last updated January 2026
Our take
Based on the ratings of 5,099 students, a sample of their written reviews and the syllabus, as the course stood in January 2026. No course pays to be reviewed.
This is a beginner HTML and CSS course, about 37 hours across 319 lectures. It starts with document structure, forms and semantic markup, then moves through the box model, specificity, positioning and transitions. Nearly 10 hours go to Flexbox and CSS Grid, and the course ends with a four-part final site called Swipe. The syllabus lists no JavaScript. It assumes no experience, just a browser and a free code editor, so it suits people starting from zero as well as those with some HTML and CSS who want to level up.
Students are warm about the teaching. Reviewers call Colt Steele an excellent instructor who explains tricky ideas simply and keeps reassuring beginners. One person who had never coded said it was brilliant and easy to follow, and a returning developer liked that nothing is over or under explained. The ratings back that up: 3,629 of the 5,099 reviews are five stars and 1,274 are four. The complaints are small. One reviewer finds the pace tough when taking notes, another wants keyboard shortcuts shown on screen, and one noticed the blog post project is skipped when earlier projects are made responsive.
Practice is built in, with projects after most big topics and starter files and solutions for each section. The course has only three quizzes and no in-platform coding exercises, so the exercises happen in your own editor. It was last updated in January 2026. For a first HTML and CSS course, it is an easy recommendation. If you already know the basics and want advanced CSS or JavaScript, look elsewhere.
Pros
- Nearly 10 hours on Flexbox and CSS Grid, followed by projects that use them
- Colt's explanations are called clear and reassuring, even by people who had never coded
- Starter files, solutions, cheatsheets and a Discord community come with it
- Rated 4.8 from 5,099 reviews, with about 96 percent giving four or five stars
Cons
- Pace can feel quick when taking notes, according to one reviewer
- Keyboard shortcuts are not shown on screen, so one reviewer keeps pausing to look them up
- Only three quizzes and no built-in coding exercises, so practice runs in your own editor
Never tried to learn any coding before, but this beginners course was brilliant and very easy to follow, Colt is an excellent instructor.
Built for true beginners, though returning developers say it works as a useful refresher.
What you will learn
- Master HTML & CSS and build massive real-world projects, with no prior knowledge needed!
- How to write well-structured and semantic HTML documents
- Master tricky CSS concepts including the cascade, inheritance, and specificity
- Work with CSS animations, transitions, pseudo-elements, gradients, and more
- Get practice with dozens of exercises, quizzes, and challenges
- Design beautiful websites from the ground up that look good on all screen sizes
- Build reusable components, work with CSS variables, and write modern and clean CSS code
Course content
35 sections · 319 lectures · 37 hours of video 3 quizzes, 2 articles
- 1Introduction 1 free preview10 lectures · 1 quiz · 46 min
- 2HTML Basics9 lectures · 50 min
- 3More HTML9 lectures · 1 hour
- 4Working With Forms8 lectures · 56 min
- 5Other Elements5 lectures · 36 min
- 6CSS Basics8 lectures · 29 min
- 7The World of CSS Colors 1 free preview9 lectures · 51 min
- 8Styling Text8 lectures · 1.3 hours
- 9More Text Styling7 lectures · 50 min
- 10Selectors Pt. 16 lectures · 38 min
- 11The Box Model16 lectures · 1.7 hours
- 12Artist Portfolio Project9 lectures · 1.3 hours
- 13Specificity and The Cascade 1 free preview10 lectures · 1 quiz · 1.2 hours
- 14Blog Post Project8 lectures · 1.3 hours
- 15CSS Units7 lectures · 1 quiz · 48 min
- 16Hazel CV Project8 lectures · 55 min
- 17Backgrounds, Gradients, & Filters11 lectures · 55 min
- 18Positioning 1 free preview10 lectures · 59 min
- 19Transitions and Transforms10 lectures · 1.1 hours
- 20Flexbox: Part 113 lectures · 1.1 hours
- 21Flexbox Pt 2: Flex Items & Patterns!9 lectures · 1.1 hours
- 22Cost Estimator Project10 lectures · 1.5 hours
- 23Making Responsive Websites With Media Queries12 lectures · 1.3 hours
- 24Making Our Projects Responsive4 lectures · 44 min
- 25CSS Grid Part 111 lectures · 51 min
- 26CSS Grid Part 2 1 free preview10 lectures · 1 hour
- 27Grid Project10 lectures · 1.3 hours
- 28Building Animations9 lectures · 49 min
- 29Building A Mobile Drawer Navbar 1 free preview6 lectures · 41 min
- 30::before and ::after Pseudo-Elements6 lectures · 48 min
- 31Modern CSS8 lectures · 38 min
- 32Swipe Mega Project8 lectures · 1 hour
- 33Swipe Project Pt 210 lectures · 1.8 hours
- 34Swipe Pt 311 lectures · 1.9 hours
- 35Swipe Pt 4: Making It Responsive14 lectures · 2.3 hours
Who it is for
The instructor says it suits
- Anyone who wants to learn how to create their own stunning, professional websites
- Complete beginners with no experience
- Students with some HTML & CSS experience looking to level up their skills
What you need before you start
- No previous coding experience needed
- Any computer will work: Mac, Windows, or Linux
- All you need is a web browser and code editor (we download a free editor together)
How it compares
Against the other 110 rated Udemy courses in CSS on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 97% of them
- Reviews5,099#14 of 111 by number of reviews
- Length37.2 hourslonger than 95% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2026more recently than 94% of them
Course Description
**Modern in-depth HTML & CSS course!**
** Check out the promo video to see the beautiful, responsive projects we build in this course! **
This course will teach you everything you need to know about HTML, CSS, and web design to build your own stunning websites from scratch. Instead of just watching me code, you’ll learn how to structure and build any website you can think of.
My background is in teaching in-person bootcamp programs around the world, where I work directly with students to help them learn web development and change careers. This course is based on all my experience in the classroom. Unlike most Udemy courses, this course includes dozens of exercises and challenges which ask you to recreate components, build layouts, and practice HTML and CSS. Practice is the most important tool I have to help you learn, and this course includes lots of it!
This course covers a huge amount of information, but it’s designed to be approachable for complete beginners and intermediate developers alike.
We start with the basics of HTML: structuring documents, creating text elements, tables, and forms. Then we learn about semantic markup and creating accessible webpages
Next, we cover the basics of CSS: working with selectors, color systems, and styling text elements.
From there, we cover critical CSS concepts including the box model, specificity, the cascade, and CSS units.
Next you’ll learn all about backgrounds, gradients, filters, positioning elements, working with transitions and transformations, and many other more intermediate CSS properties.
We then spend nearly 10 hours learning how to create complex CSS layouts using Flexbox and CSS Grid. We then build multiple projects with complicated layouts.
You’ll learn how to build responsive layouts that look good on all screen sizes, from large desktops to tablets and mobile devices.
Finally, we wrap up the course with our massive final project that we build together from scratch. This project combines everything we’ve learned in the course into one huge website built with thousands of lines of HTML & CSS. Check out the promo video to learn more about the final project.
This course includes:
Over 37 hours of high quality videos
Downloadable assets, starter coder, and solutions for all sections
Dozens of exercises, challenges, and quizzes
Downloadable slides and cheatsheets, including beautiful diagrams and syntax references
Included support in the course Q&A forums
Access to our exclusive discord community with thousands of students
About me (your instructor)
I’m a teacher with extensive real-world teaching experience. I’ve taught thousands of students how to code at my in-person coding bootcamps around the globe. My graduates work at companies including Google, Tesla, Apple, Airbnb, and pretty much any big company you can name. My in-person teaching background informs the online experiences I create for students. Unlike most Udemy instructors, I’ve actually taught this material in a classroom full of students for nearly a decade. I know what works and what doesn’t work!
Instructor Details
- 4.8 Rating
5,099 Reviews
Colt Steele
Hi! I'm Colt. I'm a developer with a serious love for teaching. I've spent the last few years teaching people to program at 2 different immersive bootcamps where I've helped hundreds of people become web developers and change their lives. My graduates work at companies like Google, Salesforce, and Square.
Most recently, I led Galvanize's SF's 6 month immersive program as Lead Instructor and Curriculum Director. After graduating from my class, 94% of my students went on to receive full-time developer roles. I also worked at Udacity as a Senior Course Developer on the web development team where I got to reach thousands of students daily.
I’ve since focused my time on bringing my classroom teaching experience to an online environment. In 2016 I launched my Web Developer Bootcamp course, which has since gone on to become one of the best selling and top rated courses on Udemy. I was also voted Udemy’s Best New Instructor of 2016.
I've spent years figuring out the "formula" to teaching technical skills in a classroom environment, and I'm really excited to finally share my expertise with you. I can confidently say that my online courses are without a doubt the most comprehensive ones on the market.
Join me on this crazy adventure!
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Reviews
By David Chambless on 5/25/2026
Even though it is early on in the course, I appreciate how thorough Colt is in explaining the process. Also, I appreciate the constant reassurance. Thanks Colt, nothing to change, keep doing what you're doing.
By Manar Merhi on 5/25/2026
Lovely course, I like how you don't over/under explain anything. I had so much fun watching you and refreshing my memory, your style of explaining is nice for beginners and returning veterans alike. My comments are: 1. In the section where you start to make the projects we already did responsive, you forgot to do that for the "blog post" project, I suggest you add that, though maybe you should work on a flexbox version of "blog post" instead of the one we could see in previous lectures where we still had not learnt about flexbox 2. In the "ski resort card" exercise, you mentioned you wanted the container to be "x pixels", through you ended up making the content "x pixels" not the entire container -> Either make it a border-box or specify that you want the content to be "x pixels" not the entire card. 3. When teaching about transform, I suggest you mention skew since you ended up using it in the final project. Overall a perfect course, I would definitely recommend.
By Charles Daoheuang on 5/10/2026
It would be super helpful if the presenter could add shortcut keys as visual cues whenever he use shortcut keys because it's kind of hard to follow by only hearing. I'm a visual learning, so this will tremendously help improve my learning. Otherwise, I keep having to pause and look up what shortcuts he's using which is a little annoying. Overall, a really good course so far!
By Susanmaries on 5/7/2026
I originally enrolled in The HTML & CSS Bootcamp 2026 Edition to brush up on accessibility best practices for HTML content I build in Canvas. I definitely got what I came for — but I also ended up learning far more than I expected. The instructor explains concepts clearly, the pacing feels natural, and the exercises throughout the course really help reinforce each new skill. I especially appreciated the step‑by‑step walkthroughs in the larger projects, which made the material feel practical and immediately usable. A few things could make the course even stronger. I would have loved a downloadable outline of all sections, both for reference and for planning my study sessions. For the big projects, it would help to have a style guide or mock‑up that lists the expected font sizes, colors, and layout choices — similar to what a company would provide with brand guidelines. That would reduce the need to inspect the final code just to confirm what values were used. I also think the course sections themselves could benefit from more consistent styling, something like MLA‑style formatting, to make navigation and readability even smoother. Overall, though, this is a well‑designed, modern, and genuinely helpful course. I walked away with stronger accessibility practices and a much deeper understanding of HTML and CSS than I anticipated.
By Bill Kipp on 4/3/2026
I'm 30% complete of this 2,230 minute class. PRO's: Class is very focused, no rabbit trails. He explains what to do and I can replicate it. Monkey see, monkey do. He talks quickly, so I need to pause and rewind (good). He shows his source links, his personal steps, and provides great reasoning. Awesome videos! CON's: It is 37.2 Udemy hours. (...for me 1 Udemy hour = 3 human hours...or...it can take me 15-20 minutes to do a 6 minute class...). Setting aside only 5 hours per week for this & you can estimate how many weeks this class will take me. OVERALL If you are dedicated to the 'long haul", I highly-highly recommend this website building class!! If you want a 2-3 week class...keep shopping elsewhere.
By Anonymized User on 4/1/2026
This course is very helpful for every new learner of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In this course the trainer will explain all the topics and every time he is using examples and also some activity which make learning more interesting. I prefer to you must watch this course.
By Ticha KLyn on 2/1/2026
Well, I had some knowledge on HTML and CSS before enrolling in this course because I felt something was lacking. To be very honest, I am gradually gaining confidence as I go through this course. A lot of gaps and concepts which I tried to understand in my previous course on the same topic have been filled. Mr. Colt is a great teacher, nothing else. His explanations and demonstrations are super easy to understand. I am only able to know this because of other courses I have personally taken and completed on the same topic. If you are a complete beginner, I highly recommend this course. This man's teaching style is great. I am in the middle of the course and I have no reason not to give this course a five star rating, but if things change, I might update this review. If this review isn't updated, just know there's absolutely nothing to worry about taking this course. I hope this gives you enough motivation to purchase and give this course a try. Thank You Colt! , LOL.
By Animesh Srivastava on 1/11/2026
Colt is an amazing instructor, and his course is incredibly detailed. The modules are long, but only because he takes the time to thoroughly cover every essential topic—and that’s something I personally appreciate, as it genuinely builds confidence in development. His hands-on approach, combined with tons of practical exercises, makes the learning experience both engaging and effective. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to truly understand core concepts and strengthen their skills.
By Philip Odetola on 12/29/2025
The course was great. I went from being not confident in css to knowing what im doing. thank you colt. One popint of improvemnt i would suggest is getting some sort of teaching assistannt. Questions don't really get answered so expect some googling around or using AI if you get stuck. But if you are looking to understand CSS, this is definitely one to consider.
By Carmen Durham on 11/10/2025
This class was very helpful, and I really appreciated the hands-on projects, which made the learning experience engaging and practical. One suggestion for improvement would be to use softer colors in the examples. At one point, the entire screen was bright red, which made it impossible to follow along during that module - I just had to look away, or I'd get a headache. Perhaps consider using more neutral or pastel tones that are easier on the eyes.
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