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Avoid common HTML mistakes

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

4prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskAdd a new paragraph of text about our new product features to the 'Features' section of the…+
Add a new paragraph of text about our new product features to the 'Features' section of the product page.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore I publish the new blog post, review its web content for accessibility. Ensure all images…+
Before I publish the new blog post, review its web content for accessibility. Ensure all images have descriptive alt text, headings follow a logical order, and the link text is clear without relying on 'click here'.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentThe content team keeps asking why their bullet points aren't showing up correctly on the new…+
The content team keeps asking why their bullet points aren't showing up correctly.
The content team keeps asking why their bullet points aren't showing up correctly on the new FAQ page, even though they used the list button in the CMS. I've checked the page's structure, and it's full of unclosed tags and nested paragraphs. I can't keep fixing these manually. What's the most common underlying cause for content teams introducing malformed web content like this, and what's the best immediate action I can take to prevent it on this page?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternI frequently find myself correcting basic web page structure errors from content contributors,…+
I frequently find myself correcting basic HTML structure errors from content contributors.
I frequently find myself correcting basic web page structure errors from content contributors, like unclosed tags or incorrect nesting. This takes valuable time away from more complex tasks. What habit should I change to empower content creators to produce cleaner web content, reducing my workload and improving overall site quality?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

Questions people actually ask

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from HTML's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.