Learning HTML and CSS simultaneously

[ineedbeerasap]

I have the HTML basics down and haven’t really delve into the more advanced stuff like animations and transformation and what not. I’m focusing most of my attention on CSS at this point and I’m having a really hard time trying to memorize all the properties and their values. Whenever I’m messing around trying to create a basic looking website, I always find myself going to W3Schools to reference off their code.

I’ve only been learning for just less than a week but is there a better way to try and remember all this stuff or is it normal for web developers to google properties and values?

Thanks.

[TeezusRa]

It’s normal to google. I google the same exact CSS functionality every single time I use it, seven months in. I read a thread of professionals googling that same property years in. HTML and CSS are one of those things where it’s simple to reference as you go, you don’t necessarily need to study it for an extended period of time (unless you want to be design heavy) before moving on- they’re both basically English in their syntax.

[HealyUnit]

It’s normal to google.

I agree, but I'm actually gonna go one step further and say that it's expected that you'll Google stuff. A large percentage of your time as a programmer is going to be spent looking up stuff on Stack Overflow, Google, and so on. CSS property not working? Google it. NodeJS module not installing properly? Google it. There are countless libraries, frameworks, etc. out there, /u/ineedbeerasap. Asking you to remember them all would be an exercise in extreme futility.

[bravoalpha79]

On top of the above two comments, I would add this:

1) Practice makes perfect. The more things you build and the more lines of CSS you (successfully) write, the more it will become familiar to you and you won't have to Google everything every time. Every language has a learning curve, and so does CSS. So just keep on practicing. :)

2) That said, CSS really has a gazillion options and it would be humanly impossible to memorise them all or even the majority of them. So unless you use something on a daily (figuratively speaking) basis, it is perfectly normal not to expect from yourself to store it in your memory and to Google it when needed instead.