Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is a style-sheet language used to describe how a web page written in HTML should be presented, controlling elements such as layout, color, fonts and spacing separately from the page's content. Norwegian computer scientist Hakon Wium Lie proposed CSS in 1994 while working at CERN, and the World Wide Web Consortium published the first CSS specification in 1996. Separating a page's presentation from its underlying structure let web designers apply a consistent look across many pages from one shared style sheet, and CSS became a foundational technology of modern web design.
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SignificanceA cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript. 1 FAQs
What problem was CSS created to solve?
Early HTML could not control fonts and colors; CSS separated presentation from content.
Early Web pages gave authors little control over appearance. One of the first questions from a new author was how to change the fonts and colors of elements, and HTML at that time did not provide that. CSS was created as a style-sheet language so that presentation could be described separately from a page's content.
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CSS is a cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript.
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CSS is a cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript.
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