A basic understanding of both can be achieved pretty fast if you have good learning material. How many hours it will take you is difficult to tell.... Maybe 5-6.

Here there are 3 great places where to start form:

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
CSS Basics
Free tutorials on HTML and CSS - Build your own website - HTML.net

I spent a lot of time reading and referencing the above-mentioned w3schools.com website, but I didn't finally understand the positioning of divs until I read this page:
CSS from the Ground Up | Web Page Design for Designers ©

Now I always think about floating mattresses, and I GET IT.

If you are a hands on experience type of person use dreamweaver software and practice on this software of your HTML and CSS skills.

use w3cschools with this software and you will overcome the learning curve faster.

Don't run at the back of time. You need to expert on them!! It all depends on how intelligent you are to grasp things and how innovative you are to make something new out of that.

w3schools have a good collection of resources for free try it out. Or purchase some books and join some tutorial classes to get detailed in-depth knowledge in them.

I also learned almost everything I know w3. I would also recommend everyone to learn to program for Notepad + +. It is a free program that does no real programming for you. But he admits the program language, you have to do with colour coding and built-in functions.

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I agree with othere post..if u have hands on experience in software technology and you are familer with the tools then you should take help from w3schools site it ill help you.you can get whatever u want 2 know.

It depends on the person's learning level. if the person is a fast-learner, few hours would be enough. But if he lacks bits of intellect, then, it's another story.

I started few days ago, pretty easy to get the basic,

HTML is very easy, it only took me a few hours to learn waaay back in 1997 when I was a college freshman! If you don't want to learn it and want a shortcut just use a WYSIWYG editor. I have a free one at my blog if you need it. It's not the blog in my sig but that blog has a link to it if you want to click through.

If you want to learn by yourself then i know a very good website for html and css both that will help you a lot. Please try Mega site of Bible studies and information. i am using only this website to learn, this is more user friendly website.

There are many resources online you can google them.

I guess one day is enough for one

First we need to define what are the basics of HTML and CSS ...
Then determine what the threshold of your knowledge ...
Frivolous to say that it can learn in one day or several hours ...
I would advise you to at least seven days ...

It takes less than a day to glean the basics from several tutorials available on the internet. However, to get a complete knowledge it might take months or years depending on your level of understanding and intellect.

from me the best one to suggest is w3schools.com...its the best place to learn html and css...

It needs Learning plus practising. Both are important.

I'm sorry, but anyone acting like you will have any kind of real understanding of HTML and CSS in a couple hours or days is just wrong. I would love to see someone write a website and style sheets of any level of professionalism in that time. You can learn some basic concepts but not near enough to create a professional looking site.

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A good weekend, the right software installed and ready to go, and a couple of books with good relevant examples you can work through.

As far as languages go, html is definitely one of the easiest. it's the gateway language

It depends. the basics can be learned in a few hours. But if you want to make a mini-site or a WordPress theme, that would take more time to learn.

w3schools is best place where you can learn HTML /CSS easily.

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