MDN Web Docs

MDN Web Docs
Native name
Mozilla Developer Network
FormerlyMozilla Developer Center
Type of site
Wiki
Available in
  • English
  • Chinese
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
OwnerMozilla
Industryopen-source software development
URLdeveloper.mozilla.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional, required to edit content
Usersover 45.000[1]
Launched2005; 19 years ago (2005)
Current statusOnline
Content license
CC BY-SA v2.5+ et al.
Written in

MDN Web Docs, previously Mozilla Developer Network and formerly Mozilla Developer Center, is a documentation repository and learning resource for web developers. It was started by Mozilla in 2005[2] as a unified place for documentation about open web standards, Mozilla's own projects, and developer guides.[3]

MDN Web Docs content is maintained by Mozilla, Google employees, and volunteers (community of developers and technical writers). It also contains content contributed by Microsoft, Google, and Samsung who, in 2017, announced they would shut down their own web documentation projects and move all their documentation to MDN Web Docs.[4] Topics include HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Web APIs, Django, Node.js, WebExtensions, MathML, and others.[5]

  1. ^ "MDN Community". MDN Community. Mozilla.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference MitchellBlog was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Willison, Simon (September 15, 2005). "The Mozilla Developer Center". SitePoint. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
  4. ^ Tung, Liam (October 19, 2017). "Developers rejoice: Microsoft, Google, Mozilla are putting all their web API docs in one place". ZDNet. Archived from the original on October 21, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  5. ^ "Ten Things Developers should know about the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. December 14, 2012. Archived from the original on October 13, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2023.