#coding advice requested

it started with block coding when they introduced it in the computer lab In early elementary but I took a liking and asked my parents if I could keep doing it. I eventually learned how to actually type up some code, understand what a good amount of it meant, and got to the point where I knew how to make Minecraft and Roblox mods (they were the most popular at the time). once I hit middle school, a lot changed in my life and I kinda fell off the coding enjoyment. I tried to take a class for it in my 8th grade year but it was Boeing and covering basically a bunch of stuff I already knew. now, here I am, 5 years later, reading fan fiction with an altered site look due to applying a bunch of CSS code to my account.

Now, the current skin I have was copied and pasted code from another creator on here and even though I didn't write it myself, it got me thinking about how much I actually understood.

when I opened up the various CSS files, some made more sense than others. the ones that have lines like:

body {

font-size: var(--txt-size-main);

color: var(--txt-main);

}

make sense to me to an extent. this is the kind of thing that I did over and over again in these camps and classes, altering either some or most of it and expanding as time want on. digging deeper, I found things I hadn't seen either ever, or it'd been a long time. so I did some digging. found a few sources for articles that explained various commands, detailed how to string them together, and showed how they looked when applied to HTML.

the issue now is, I need to understand the HTML I'd be applying CSS to before I can know exactly what it is I need to do research on. I'm currently looking for AO3's basic HTML behind their site, but it's more difficult than I expected lol. I'm testing with basic HTML and CSS in a playground program right now and it's helping refresh my memory on the punctuation and language that's being used but that's about it.