# Code Style Guide
What we expect for labs, homework, and the capstone. Auto-graders check structure; reviewers check style. Both matter.
## General
- **One thing per file.** A page = one HTML file, its styles in one CSS file, its scripts in one JS file (split as the project grows).
- **Indent with 2 spaces.** Never mix tabs and spaces.
- **End files with a newline.**
- **No trailing whitespace.**
- **UTF-8** encoding everywhere.
- **LF** line endings. (Configure: `git config --global core.autocrlf input` on Mac/Linux, `true` on Windows.)
- **Format on save** with Prettier (VS Code: `editor.formatOnSave: true`).
## HTML
- Always ``, ``, ``, ``.
- Use **semantic** elements (``, ``, `