How to Build a Certificate Generator with HTML and CSS

Every course platform, bootcamp, and online community eventually needs the same thing: certificates. And most developers reach for one of these solutions: A design tool (Canva, Figma) — manual, doesn't scale PDF generation libraries (PDFKit, pdfmake) — painful layout control Canvas API — powerful but verbose and hard to style A third-party certificate SaaS — expensive and locked-in There's a simpler path. Certificates are just styled documents. HTML and CSS are the best layout tools ever invente