diff --git a/apps/web/src/vscode-icons.test.ts b/apps/web/src/vscode-icons.test.ts
index b00cf0cdc0933706b751c085b8e11f6a90679f8e..e03f5a4c3619cb2faa68790b958a3704c4327f5d 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/vscode-icons.test.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/vscode-icons.test.ts
@@ -30,12 +30,14 @@ describe("getVscodeIconUrlForEntry", () => {
     const tsxUrl = getVscodeIconUrlForEntry("checkbox.tsx", "file", "light");
     const dockerfileUrl = getVscodeIconUrlForEntry("Dockerfile", "file", "dark");
     const shellUrl = getVscodeIconUrlForEntry("entrypoint.sh", "file", "dark");
+    const htmlUrl = getVscodeIconUrlForEntry("index.html", "file", "dark");
     const cursorRulesUrl = getVscodeIconUrlForEntry("general.mdc", "file", "dark");
     const githubWorkflowUrl = getVscodeIconUrlForEntry(".github/workflows/ci.yml", "file", "light");
 
     assert.isTrue(tsxUrl.endsWith("/file_type_reactts.svg"));
     assert.isTrue(dockerfileUrl.endsWith("/file_type_docker.svg"));
     assert.isTrue(shellUrl.endsWith("/file_type_shell.svg"));
+    assert.isTrue(htmlUrl.endsWith("/file_type_html.svg"));
     assert.isTrue(cursorRulesUrl.endsWith("/file_type_markdown.svg"));
     assert.isTrue(githubWorkflowUrl.endsWith("/file_type_light_yaml.svg"));
   });
diff --git a/apps/web/src/vscode-icons.ts b/apps/web/src/vscode-icons.ts
index e2c0d95834270fcc0a8122d3942b9b72a34f220c..3d9a59702b4088f6dcc3c5ca112b80433f00fcbd 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/vscode-icons.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/vscode-icons.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ const languageIdByFileName = toLowercaseLookup(languageAssociations.fileNameToLa
 const localLanguageIdByExtensionOverrides = {
   // Cursor rules files (*.mdc) are commonly treated as markdown in VSCode/Cursor.
   mdc: "markdown",
+  // Upstream languages.ts currently maps .html to django-html before html.
+  // Prefer the base HTML icon for standalone HTML files.
+  html: "html",
   // Upstream languages.ts maps yml/yaml to specialized language ids that can produce
   // non-generic YAML icons (for example cloudfoundry/esphome). Prefer the base YAML icon
   // unless a more specific basename/extension match (e.g. azure-pipelines.yml) is found.