Build a Digital Clock with HTML, CSS & JavaScript | Complete Beginner Tutorial

Welcome back to another exciting coding tutorial where we build a sleek digital clock together! Dive into creating a modern web-based clock that displays real-time time with a stunning background image, clear title, and easy-to-read digital format that matches your computer's clock. Using HTML for structure, CSS for beautiful styling like flexbox centering and custom backgrounds, and JavaScript to fetch and update the system time every second—complete with leading zeros and AM/PM logic—we'll make it responsive and live-updating for any device.

Download the full source code from my website: https://www.100jsprojects.com/project/digital-clock

In this step-by-step guide, start by setting up Visual Studio Code and generating an HTML5 boilerplate for the clock's layout with headings, divs, and spans for hours, minutes, seconds, and AM/PM. Move to CSS to center elements, add a nature-inspired Unsplash background, style the clock with slate blue boxes, text shadows, and uppercase labels, plus absolute positioning for the AM/PM indicator. Finally, add JavaScript to select elements by ID, create an update function using Date methods for current time, handle 12-hour format logic, pad single digits, and use setTimeout for seamless real-time updates without page refreshes.

What You'll Need:

Visual Studio Code (free)
A web browser (Chrome recommended for Live Preview)
Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS (or eagerness to learn!)
If you're new to web dev, check out my playlist for more beginner projects:
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