# hail2u/html-best-practices

For writing maintainable and scalable HTML documents

Repository: https://github.com/hail2u/html-best-practices
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/html-best-practices
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-03-28T22:17:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 38/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 13, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4275, "days_push": 523, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4073, forks 420 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:34.248373+00:00)

## What it is
A curated guide of best practices for writing maintainable and scalable HTML documents, with concrete good/bad examples for each rule. It is a documentation-style resource translated into many languages, not a tool or library.

## Use cases
- learn how to write clean maintainable HTML
- HTML coding style guide for a team
- check whether my HTML markup follows best practices
- reference for correct DOCTYPE and character escaping in HTML
- onboarding material for frontend developers on HTML conventions
- avoid common HTML mistakes like omitted closing tags

## When to choose
- you want a readable, example-driven HTML style guide to follow or adopt
- you need multilingual HTML guidelines for a team or course
- you are reviewing or standardizing markup conventions in a web project

## When to avoid
- you need an automated HTML linter or formatter that enforces rules in code
- you are looking for CSS or JavaScript guidelines rather than HTML
- you need official normative specifications instead of opinionated recommendations

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, documentation, tutorials
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: html, best-practices, coding-guidelines, web-standards, frontend, style-guide, web-server

## Member repositories
- hail2u/html-best-practices (main) score 38

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.248373+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:29.782081+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hail2u/html-best-practices (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.248373+00:00, sha 0f359a0c1c1e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.