HTML System Setup
Installing a text editor
You probably already have a basic text editor on your computer. By default Windows includes Notepad and macOS comes with TextEdit. Linux distros vary; the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release comes with GNOME Text Editor by default.
For web development, you can probably do better than Notepad or TextEdit. We recommend starting with Visual Studio Code, which is a free editor, that offers live previews and code hints.
Installing modern web browsers
For now, we’ll install a couple of desktop web browsers to test our code in. Make sure you install at least two of these browsers, from two different families (so you don’t test in two browsers that use the same rendering engine):