Cascading Style Sheets is the language used to control how web pages look, from colours and fonts to layout. It was proposed in 1994 by Hakon Wium Lie, who worked with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, and developed with Bert Bos. The first standard, CSS level 1, was issued as a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium. The core idea was to separate the content of a page from its presentation, so one style sheet could change the appearance of many pages. CSS has since grown through new versions and modules that support layouts such as grids and flexible boxes, animations and responsive design, and it remains a basic technology of the web.
Before and after
- 1 November 1996Launch of Al Jazeera
- 5 November 19961996 United States presidential election
- 7 November 1996Launch of Mars Global Surveyor
- 4 December 1996Launch of Mars Pathfinder
- 17 December 1996Creation of Cascading Style Sheets
- 20 December 1996Death of Carl Sagan
- 1997Release of Visual Studio
- from 1997 to 2014Founding of G8
- 1997Establishment of Talampaya National Park
More in Science & technology
- 1945Invention of computer
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 1971Email
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
The era
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