html-ppt — HTML PPT Studio
Author professional HTML presentations as static files. One theme file = one
look. One layout file = one page type. One animation class = one entry effect.
All pages share a token-based design system in assets/base.css.
Install
bashnpx skills add https://github.com/lewislulu/html-ppt-skill
One command, no build. Pure static HTML/CSS/JS with only CDN webfonts.
No network on the target machine? Point the CLI at a local copy
(npx skills add ./html-ppt-skill), or just copy this folder into your agent's
skills directory — ~/.claude/skills/html-ppt/ for Claude Code. Decks render
offline; only the webfonts fall back to the system stack. See
README.md.
What the skill gives you
- 36 themes (
assets/themes/*.css) — minimal-white, editorial-serif, soft-pastel, sharp-mono, arctic-cool, sunset-warm, catppuccin-latte/mocha, dracula, tokyo-night, nord, solarized-light, gruvbox-dark, rose-pine, neo-brutalism, glassmorphism, bauhaus, swiss-grid, terminal-green, xiaohongshu-white, rainbow-gradient, aurora, blueprint, memphis-pop, cyberpunk-neon, y2k-chrome, retro-tv, japanese-minimal, vaporwave, midcentury, corporate-clean, academic-paper, news-broadcast, pitch-deck-vc, magazine-bold, engineering-whiteprint - 15 full-deck templates (
templates/full-decks/<name>/) — complete multi-slide decks with scoped.tpl-<name>CSS. 8 extracted from real-world decks (xhs-white-editorial, graphify-dark-graph, knowledge-arch-blueprint, hermes-cyber-terminal, obsidian-claude-gradient, testing-safety-alert, xhs-pastel-card, dir-key-nav-minimal), 7 scenario scaffolds (pitch-deck, product-launch, tech-sharing, weekly-report, xhs-post 3:4, course-module, presenter-mode-reveal — 演讲者模式专用) - 36 layouts (
templates/single-page/*.html) with realistic demo data, including 5 real-image layouts (single / full-bleed / image+text / gallery / before-after) - 27 CSS animations (
assets/animations/animations.css) viadata-anim - 20 canvas FX animations (
assets/animations/fx/*.js) viadata-fx— particle-burst, confetti-cannon, firework, starfield, matrix-rain, knowledge-graph (force-directed), neural-net (pulses), constellation, orbit-ring, galaxy-swirl, word-cascade, letter-explode, chain-react, magnetic-field, data-stream, gradient-blob, sparkle-trail, shockwave, typewriter-multi, counter-explosion - Keyboard runtime (
assets/runtime.js) — arrows, T (theme), A (anim), F/O, S (presenter mode: magnetic-card popup with CURRENT / NEXT / SCRIPT / TIMER cards), N (notes drawer), R (reset timer in presenter) - Touch navigation — swipe left/right to change slides on phones and tablets
- FX runtime (
assets/animations/fx-runtime.js) — auto-inits[data-fx]on slide enter, cleans up on leave - Showcase decks for themes / layouts / animations / full-decks gallery
- Headless Chrome render script for PNG export
When to use
Use when the user asks for any kind of slide-based output or wants to turn text/notes into a presentable deck. Prefer this over building from scratch.
🎤 Presenter Mode (演讲者模式 + 逐字稿)
If the user mentions any of: 演讲 / 分享 / 讲稿 / 逐字稿 / speaker notes / presenter view / 演讲者视图 / 提词器, or says things like "我要去给团队讲 xxx", "要做一场技术分享", "怕讲不流畅", "想要一份带逐字稿的 PPT" — use the presenter-mode-reveal full-deck template and write 150–300 words of 逐字稿 in each slide's <aside class="notes">.
See references/presenter-mode.md for the full authoring guide including the 3 rules of speaker script writing:
- 不是讲稿,是提示信号 — 加粗核心词 + 过渡句独立成段
- 每页 150–300 字 — 2–3 分钟/页的节奏
- 用口语,不用书面语 — "因此"→"所以","该方案"→"这个方案"
All full-deck templates support the S key presenter mode (it's built into runtime.js). S opens a new popup window with 4 magnetic cards:
- 🔵 CURRENT — pixel-perfect iframe preview of the current slide
- 🟣 NEXT — pixel-perfect iframe preview of the next slide
- 🟠 SPEAKER SCRIPT — large-font 逐字稿 (scrollable)
- 🟢 TIMER — elapsed time + slide counter + prev/next/reset buttons
Each card is draggable by its header and resizable by the bottom-right corner handle. Card positions/sizes persist to localStorage per deck. A "Reset layout" button restores the default arrangement.
Why the previews are pixel-perfect: each preview is an <iframe> that loads the actual deck HTML with a ?preview=N query param; runtime.js detects this and renders only slide N with no chrome. So the preview uses the same CSS, theme, fonts, and viewport as the audience view — colors and layout are guaranteed identical.
Smooth navigation: on slide change, the presenter window sends postMessage({type:'preview-goto', idx:N}) to each iframe. The iframe just toggles .is-active between slides — no reload, no flicker. The two windows also stay in sync via BroadcastChannel.
Only presenter-mode-reveal is designed from the ground up around the feature with proper example 逐字稿 on every slide.
Keyboard in presenter window: ← → navigate (syncs audience) · R reset timer · Esc close popup.
Keyboard in audience window: S open presenter · T cycle theme · ← → navigate (syncs presenter) · F fullscreen · O overview.
Before you author anything — ALWAYS ask or recommend
Do not start writing slides until you understand three things. Either ask the user directly, or — if they already handed you rich content — propose a tasteful default and confirm.
- Content & audience. What's the deck about, how many slides, who's watching (engineers / execs / 小红书读者 / 学生 / VC)?
- Style / theme. Which of the 36 themes fits? If unsure, recommend 2-3
candidates based on tone:
- Business / investor pitch →
pitch-deck-vc,corporate-clean,swiss-grid - Tech sharing / engineering →
tokyo-night,dracula,catppuccin-mocha,terminal-green,blueprint - 小红书图文 →
xiaohongshu-white,soft-pastel,rainbow-gradient,magazine-bold - Academic / report →
academic-paper,editorial-serif,minimal-white - Edgy / cyber / launch →
cyberpunk-neon,vaporwave,y2k-chrome,neo-brutalism
- Business / investor pitch →
- Starting point. One of the 15 full-deck templates, or scratch? Point
to the closest
templates/full-decks/<name>/and ask if it fits. If the user's content suggests something obvious (e.g. "我要做产品发布会" →product-launch), propose it confidently instead of asking blindly.
A good opening message looks like:
我可以给你做这份 PPT!先确认三件事:
- 大致内容 / 页数 / 观众是谁?
- 风格偏好?我建议从这 3 个主题里选一个:
tokyo-night(技术分享默认好看)、xiaohongshu-white(小红书风)、corporate-clean(正式汇报)。- 要不要用我现成的
tech-sharing全 deck 模板打底?
Only after those are clear, scaffold the deck and start writing.
Quick start
- Scaffold a new deck. From the repo root:
bash
./scripts/new-deck.sh my-talk open examples/my-talk/index.html - Pick a theme. Open the deck and press
Tto cycle. Or hard-code it (../assets/here is a placeholder — use whatever prefix the rest of the file already uses;new-deck.shhas set it to the right depth):
Catalog in references/themes.md.html<link rel="stylesheet" id="theme-link" href="../assets/themes/aurora.css"> - Pick layouts. Copy
<section class="slide">...</section>blocks out of files intemplates/single-page/into your deck. Replace the demo data. Catalog in references/layouts.md. - Add animations. Put
data-anim="fade-up"(orclass="anim-fade-up") on any element. On<ul>/grids, useanim-stagger-listfor sequenced reveals. For canvas FX, use<div data-fx="knowledge-graph">...</div>and include<script src="../assets/animations/fx-runtime.js"></script>. Catalog in references/animations.md. - Use a full-deck template. Scaffold from it, don't copy it by hand —
the template's
../../../assets/is relative to its own location, so a manual copy lands the paths at the wrong depth:
Each folder is self-contained with scoped CSS. Catalog in references/full-decks.md and gallery atbash./scripts/new-deck.sh my-talk -t pitch-decktemplates/full-decks-index.html. - Render to PNG.
bash
./scripts/render.sh templates/theme-showcase.html # one shot ./scripts/render.sh examples/my-talk/index.html 12 # 12 slides
Authoring rules (important)
- Always start from a template. Don't author slides from scratch — copy the
closest layout from
templates/single-page/first, then replace content. - Use tokens, not literal colors. Every color, radius, shadow should come
from CSS variables defined in
assets/base.cssand overridden by a theme. Good:color: var(--text-1). Bad:color: #111. Text on top of an--accentfill is the one people get wrong: it needscolor: var(--accent-ink), because accents here run from#ffffffto#000000and no literal ink is readable on all of them. - Don't invent new layout files. Prefer composing existing ones. Only add
a new
templates/single-page/*.htmlif none of the 36 fit. - Putting images on a slide? Start from one of the five
image-*layouts and use.img-frame— see Images below. Never drop a bare<img>into a slide: an unframed image ignores the slide's height and pushes the rest off the page. - Respect chrome slots.
.deck-header,.deck-footer,.slide-numberand the progress bar are provided byassets/base.css+runtime.js. - Add a logo declaratively, once. Put
data-logoon<body>— don't paste an<img>into every slide. See Custom logo below. - Keyboard-first. Always include the runtime, e.g.
<script src="../assets/runtime.js"></script>, so the deck supports ← → / T / A / F / S / O / hash deep-links. - Never hand-edit the
../depth in asset paths. Everyassets/reference is relative to the file that holds it:templates/deck.htmluses../assets/,templates/single-page/*.htmluse../../assets/, andtemplates/full-decks/*/index.htmluse../../../assets/. Copying a file to a new depth silently breaks all of them. Scaffold with./scripts/new-deck.sh <name> [parent] [-t <template>], which computes the prefix for wherever the deck lands and verifies every reference resolves. - One
.slideper logical page.runtime.jsmakes.slide.is-activevisible; all others are hidden. - Supply notes. Wrap speaker notes in
<div class="notes">…</div>inside each slide. Press S to open the overlay. - NEVER put presenter-only text on the slide itself. Descriptive text like
"这一页展示了……" or "Speaker: 这里可以补充……" or small explanatory captions
aimed at the presenter MUST go inside
<div class="notes">, NOT as visible<p>/<span>elements on the slide. The.notesclass isdisplay:noneby default — it only appears in the S overlay. Slides should contain ONLY audience-facing content (titles, bullet points, data, charts, images).
Images
Five layouts in templates/single-page/ take real images. Pick by how many
images the page has to carry:
| I have… | Use | Why |
|---|---|---|
| one screenshot / diagram / chart | image-single.html | .img-frame.contain — letterboxed, never cropped |
| one photo that should carry the page | image-full-bleed.html | fills the slide, gradient scrim keeps the title readable |
| one image plus an argument | image-text-split.html | 50/50; add flip to .split to move the image right |
| 3–6 images | image-gallery.html | uniform grid; mixed source ratios are normalised by the frame |
| a before and an after | image-compare.html | both sides identical size, conclusion under each |
image-grid.html and image-hero.html are not in this list: they are
gradient-placeholder layouts with no <img> at all. Reach for them when you
want the shape of a bento wall without supplying pictures.
All five are built on one primitive from assets/base.css:
html<figure class="img-frame"><img src="shot.png" alt=""></figure> <figure class="img-frame contain" style="--img-ratio:4/3"><img src="diagram.svg" alt=""></figure>
.img-frameowns the aspect ratio and the crop; the<img>fills it withobject-fit: cover. That's what lets a user swap in a photo of any shape without the layout breaking..img-frame.containletterboxes instead of cropping — always use it for screenshots, diagrams and logos.--img-ratio(default16/10) and--img-pos(object-position) tune it..img-scrim/.img-cap/.img-tagare the scrim, caption and corner pill.- Images referenced from a deck are resolved relative to the deck's own
index.html— keep them in the deck folder, e.g.examples/my-talk/shot.png. assets/demo-images/holds the placeholder artwork used by these layouts: hand-written SVG, ~1 KB each, no network needed.
Custom logo
To brand a deck with a company / product logo, declare it once on <body>:
html<body data-logo="logo.svg" data-logo-position="bottom-right" data-logo-size="40px">
| Attribute | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
data-logo | — | Image URL, relative to the deck's own HTML file. Required. |
data-logo-position | top-right | top-left / top-right / bottom-left / bottom-right |
data-logo-size | 44px | Any CSS length; sets the logo's height, width follows the aspect ratio |
data-logo-opacity | .9 | 1 for full strength |
data-logo-alt | "" | Alt text |
- Skip it on one slide with
<section class="slide" data-no-logo>— usually the cover and any full-bleed image slide that carries its own branding. - Fine-tune the inset with
--logo-inset-x/--logo-inset-yon.deck-logo. - Place it by hand instead, if you want it inside the chrome slots or in a
spot the four presets don't cover:
This path needs no JS at all —html<div class="deck"> <img class="deck-logo" data-pos="bottom-left" src="logo.svg" alt="">base.cssstyles both the same way. - The logo shows in the presenter preview, and on every page of a
print/PDF export (unlike the header/footer/progress chrome, which print
hides).
data-no-logoslides are skipped there too. Per-page printing is painted byruntime.js+@media print; a deck that omits the runtime still gets the logo on screen, but only on one page of a PDF.
Writing guide
See references/authoring-guide.md for a step-by-step walkthrough: file structure, naming, how to transform an outline into a deck, how to choose layouts and themes per audience, how to do a Chinese + English deck, and how to export.
Catalogs (load when needed)
- references/themes.md — all 36 themes with when-to-use.
- references/layouts.md — all 36 layout types.
- references/animations.md — 27 CSS + 20 canvas FX animations.
- references/full-decks.md — all 15 full-deck templates.
- references/presenter-mode.md — 演讲者模式 + 逐字稿编写指南(技术分享/演讲必看).
- references/authoring-guide.md — full workflow.
File structure
html-ppt/ ├── SKILL.md (this file) ├── references/ (detailed catalogs, load as needed) ├── assets/ │ ├── base.css (tokens + primitives — do not edit per deck) │ ├── demo-images/*.svg (tiny offline placeholders for the image-* layouts) │ ├── fonts.css (webfont imports) │ ├── runtime.js (keyboard + presenter + overview + theme cycle) │ ├── themes/*.css (36 token overrides, one per theme) │ └── animations/ │ ├── animations.css (27 named CSS entry animations) │ ├── fx-runtime.js (auto-init [data-fx] on slide enter) │ └── fx/*.js (20 canvas FX modules: particles/graph/fireworks…) ├── templates/ │ ├── deck.html (minimal 6-slide starter) │ ├── theme-showcase.html (36 slides, iframe-isolated per theme) │ ├── layout-showcase.html (iframe tour of all 36 layouts) │ ├── animation-showcase.html (20 FX + 27 CSS animation slides) │ ├── full-decks-index.html (gallery of all 15 full-deck templates) │ ├── full-decks/<name>/ (15 scoped multi-slide deck templates) │ └── single-page/*.html (36 layout files with demo data) ├── scripts/ │ ├── new-deck.sh (scaffold a deck from deck.html) │ └── render.sh (headless Chrome → PNG) └── examples/demo-deck/ (complete working deck)
Rendering to PNG
scripts/render.sh wraps headless Chrome at
/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome. For multi-slide
capture, runtime.js exposes #/N deep-links, and render.sh iterates 1..N.
bash./scripts/render.sh templates/single-page/kpi-grid.html # single page ./scripts/render.sh examples/demo-deck/index.html 8 out-dir # 8 slides, custom dir
Keyboard cheat sheet
← → Space PgUp PgDn Home End navigate swipe left / right (touch) navigate — phones and tablets, no keyboard needed F fullscreen S open presenter window (magnetic cards: current/next/script/timer) N quick notes drawer (bottom overlay) R reset timer (in presenter window) ?preview=N URL param — force preview-only mode (single slide, no chrome) O slide overview grid T cycle themes (reads data-themes attr) A cycle demo animation on current slide #/N in URL deep-link to slide N Esc close all overlays
License & author
MIT. Copyright (c) 2026 lewis <sudolewis@gmail.com>.

