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Troubleshoot common HTML problems

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 taskReview the 'About Us' page for missing closing tags and unescaped characters, then correct them…+
Review the 'About Us' page for missing closing tags and unescaped characters, then correct them so it renders properly in all major browsers. Send the corrected code to David for deployment by Tuesday morning.
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 send this 'About Us' page to David, make it robust. Check for any inline styles that…+
Before I send this 'About Us' page to David, make it robust. Check for any inline styles that could conflict with our main CSS, ensure all images have alt text for accessibility, and flag any deprecated elements that might cause future issues.
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 new product page looks fine on my desktop, but it's completely unreadable on mobile…+
The new product page looks fine on my desktop, but it's completely unreadable on mobile devices.
The new product page looks fine on my desktop, but it's completely unreadable on mobile devices, and the launch is set for tomorrow. The marketing team is pushing hard, and I'm afraid of delaying it. I'm not sure if it's a viewport issue, a CSS conflict, or something deeper in the page structure. What's the most likely cause for such a drastic mobile rendering failure, and what's my best immediate action to get it looking presentable by tomorrow?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternI constantly battle pages that look great on one device but fall apart on others, especially…+
I constantly battle pages that look great on one device but fall apart on others.
I constantly battle pages that look great on one device but fall apart on others, especially mobile. This always delays launches and frustrates the marketing team. I keep losing time debugging responsive issues after the fact. What habit should I change in my page structuring or initial setup to ensure a more consistent cross-device experience from the start, avoiding these last-minute scrambles?
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.