# Problems with adding HTML via theme component
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-with-adding-html-via-theme-component/365656
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 12, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-with-adding-html-via-theme-component/365656 "2025-05-12T00:53:53Z")
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2025, 9:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-with-adding-html-via-theme-component/365656/5 "2025-05-12T09:25:18Z")
Hi @Issa_George. I’d recommend working through the tutorial here to get familiar with the concepts and techniques needed for theme development. It covers how to render content in various places throughout the UI:
> [@Theme Developer Tutorial: 1. Introduction](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-developer-tutorial-1-introduction/357796):
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> This tutorial will teach you how to create a Discourse Theme or Theme Component from the ground up. While this topic assumes no previous experience working on Discourse themes, it does assume some prior experience using [HTML](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML), [CSS](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS) and [JavaScript](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript). It’ll also help if you [know your way around GitHub](https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/). What are Discourse themes? A theme or theme component is a set of files packaged together designed to either modify Discourse visually or to add new features. Themes In general, themes are not suppo…
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