Combine landmarks, article cards, nav, search, details sidebar sections, and a dialog help panel into a believable documentation homepage—the sweet spot for Pico CSS.
Requirements
headerwithnavand primary doc linksmainwithcontainer(or classlessmainonly if you swapped CDN)form role="search"withtype="search"- At least two
articlecards in agrid detailsblock acting as a sidebar or FAQ disclosurefooterwith meta links or newsletter field
Important interview questions and answers
- Q: Why is Pico popular for docs sites?
A: Semantic HTML looks polished immediately—headings, prose, tables, and forms need almost no class vocabulary, so writers and engineers share the same markup. - Q: Pico vs Tailwind for documentation?
A: Pico wins when defaults are enough; Tailwind wins when every spacing and color token is bespoke and purgeable utilities matter more than element styling. - Q: What is the main limitation of this capstone?
A: Complex app chrome (data grids, drag-drop) still needs custom CSS or a heavier component library—Pico is not a full design system.
Self-check
- Does the page outline make sense with landmarks only—no div soup?
- Can you rebuild this shell from memory in under fifteen minutes?
Challenge
Docs slice
- Build hero + sidebar nav + article body + footer with mostly semantic tags.
- Use at most five optional Pico classes total.
Done when: reads as a documentation page and stays class-light.