HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices

Free to audit
Paid certificate
Intermediate
6 weeks

Provider: edX
Offered by: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Course code: HTML5.1x
Cost: Free to audit
Certificate: Paid, $249
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 6 weeks
Effort: 6–8 hrs/week
Format: Self-paced
Language: English
Subjects: Programming
Source: edX
Last verified: 20 Oct 2026

Free access to the material ends after the course length; graded work and the certificate are paid.

HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices is W3C's intermediate HTML5 course on edX. It goes beyond page structure into what HTML5 added to the web: the simplified HTML5 elements, the audio and video elements, drawing and animating graphics, the HTML5 forms features, and basic APIs such as Web storage and geolocation, all practised through interactive examples. The page asks that you already be comfortable putting together an HTML document, have minimal familiarity with CSS, and know the basics of JavaScript and the DOM, which the course recaps.

edX lists it at intermediate level, self-paced, at six weeks of six to eight hours a week. The audit track is free and gives time-limited access to the material, expiring after the estimated course length according to edX, with no graded assignments or certificate. The verified track is priced at 249 US dollars.

What you’ll learn

Use the simplified HTML5 structural elements
Embed and control audio and video with HTML5
Draw and animate graphics in the browser
Build forms with the HTML5 form features
Use basic APIs such as Web storage and geolocation

Who it’s for

Developers who already write basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript and want to use HTML5 multimedia, graphics and APIs; complete beginners should start with HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals.

Instructor

Michel Buffa Professor

Course details

Skills covered: HTML5
Mobile Phones
Web Pages
Animations
Dashboard
Prerequisites: HTML: just be comfortable putting together an HTML document CSS: minimal familiarity with CSS JavaScript and DOM APis: basic knowledge is sufficient, and this course will include a recap of basics
Subtitles: 1 language

On edx.org

Rated 4.3 out of 5 by 13 learners; 259,806 enrolled, as shown on the course page on 20 Oct 2026. These are edx.org’s own figures, not ours.

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