microsoft / microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners

README: “Open in Visual Studio Code” badge points to open.vscode.dev (DNS/NXDOMAIN)

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Description

What’s wrong

Clicking the “Open in Visual Studio Code” badge in README goes to:
https://open.vscode.dev/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners
This fails with DNS/NXDOMAIN for many users.

Expected

It should open the repo in VS Code for the Web.

Proposed fix

Change the badge target to:
https://vscode.dev/github/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners

Repro steps
  1. Open README
  2. Click “Open in Visual Studio Code” badge
  3. Observe DNS/NXDOMAIN error
Willing to contribute

Yes — I will submit a PR for this one-line change.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Open README and locate the “Open in Visual Studio Code” badge. Update its target from open.vscode.dev to vscode.dev/github/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners, then click the badge or inspect the rendered link to verify it opens the repository in VS Code for the Web.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
vscode
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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