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The History of CSS
Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, are a way to add formatting to HTML
which has extremely limited means of presentation. For example, you can
only format a paragraph with either horizontal or vertical alignments in
plain HTML. The addition of style sheets allow for a wide range of looks
which add to the appeal of web documents. There are many options
available in CSS from font choices to alignment to indentation. One of
the major appeals of CSS is
the ability to provide a central place to control what your pages look
like. Unlike HTML, where you have to change the settings on each page
manually, with CSS you can change all your web pages from a central file
stored on the server. This ability and design options make CSS the best
choice for web design.
The first release of CSS was in 1996. This release called CSS1 was a
product of the World Wide Web Consortium or the W3C. The W3C is the
source for all web design schema and the standards which are used across
the globe. Since the original CSS was published there have been two
other schema updates provided by the Consortium. CSS2 was released in
1998 and followed by CSS3 in 1999. The schema, or plans, for CSS are
divided into modules and the current version has over 40 of these units.
Since the first release in 1996 CSS has become a standard for web
design.
Style sheets have become increasingly complicated since their first
release. Each release added more capabilities to the system and
broadened their appeal. Earlier versions provided the means to change
fonts, set alignment, background colors and other simple formatting.
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