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How to make Custom Captcha Generator in CSS & JavaScript

Custom Captcha is an anti-bot security feature that combines distorted letters and numbers. It is employed to differentiate between humans and automated bots. Its purpose is to restrict access to specific online features like registration or comment posting. The distorted characters pose a challenge that bots have difficulty solving.

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Creating a captcha generator using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript could be quite an important skill for a developer. Whether you’re building a personal website or developing a client’s site.

The purpose of this blog post is to teach you how to develop a Captcha Generator using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Essentially, we’ll be designing a form that randomly generates a combination of letters and numbers in an unordered format. We’ll then need to fill in the correct letters to determine if we’ve accurately solved the captcha. By the end of this post, you’ll have gained the knowledge and skills needed to create and implement captchas on your own websites.

To create a Custom Captcha generator using HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript, follow the given steps line by line:

Create a folder. You can name this folder whatever you want, and inside this folder, create the mentioned files.

Create an index.html file. The file name must be index and its extension .html

Create a style.css file. The file name must be style and its extension .css

Create a script.js file. The file name must be script and its extension .js

To start, add the following HTML codes to your index.html file to create a basic layout for the captcha generator

Next, add the following CSS codes to your style.css file to style the Custom Captcha generator and make it interactive and beautiful.

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Finally, add the following JavaScript code to your script.js file to make the to generate random Custom Captcha and validated our entered captcha.

Conclusion and Final Words
I hope this blog post taught you how to make your own Custom Captcha Generator using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The coding process is simple and easy to understand, so you can customize your generator to your needs.

With this skill, you can make your website more secure and prevent spam or hacking. I’m confident that this post gave you the tools and confidence to create a great Captcha Generator. I recommend you to check my blog on Strong Password Generator in HTML CSS & JavaScript. This will also help you to enhance you JavaScript skills.

If you face any difficulties while creating your own captcha generator or your code is not working as expected, you can download the source code files for this captcha generator for free by clicking on the download button, and you can also view a live demo of this card slider by clicking on the view live button.

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Tiago Rangel

hey there, please don't actually use this in production. There's absolutely no security to this, no server-side confirmation or tokens, no nothing. Just use recaptcha or hcaptcha.