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about CSS
Introduction and History
Contents
01 02 03
Ice Breaker What is CSS? Developers

04 05 06
History CSS Versions Characteristics and
Advantage
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 What is CSS?
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets
It describes how HTML elements are to be displayed on
screen, paper, or in other media
It saves a lot of work.
It can control the layout of multiple
web pages all at once
External stylesheets are stored in CSS files
 The developers

Tim Berners-Lee Hakon Wium Lie Bert Bos

Father of HMTL Father of CSS Co-Developer of CSS
 1990
HTML was invented by Berners-Lee to create electronic pages
that are displayed on the World Wide Web, each page contains a
series of connections to other pages called hyperlinks.

1994
It was first proposed by Håkon Wium Lie on October 10, 1994
while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and the rest is

CSS History history.

1996
CSS1 was developed that is published and recommended by
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the main international
standards organization for the World Wide Web. Lie alongside
with Bert Bos.
CSS Version
Meet the 4 versions of CSS

December 1996

CSS1 • It is difficult and less adapted by then recent

browsers such as Internet explorer 3, Internet
Explorer 4 and Netscape 4.x.

1998

CSS2 • It is the improvement of CSS1. It included the

browser extensions.

April 12, 2011

CSS2.1 • developed by the W3C and published as a
recommendation in April 12, 2011.

June 1999

CSS3 • is the most recent and currently used.

• has support for almost all recent web browsers.
CSS Solved a
Big Problem

• HTML was NEVER intended to

contain tags for formatting a web
page!
• HTML was created to describe the
content of a web page
• Development of large websites, where fonts and color information were added to
every single page, became a long and expensive process.
• To solve this problem, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created CSS.
• CSS removed the style formatting from the HTML page!
 The Use of CSS
It is used to define styles for your web pages, including the design,
layout and variations in display for different devices and screen sizes.

Characteristics Advantages
• Maintenance ⦁ Compatible with all the devices
• Time-Saving ⦁ Website maintenance is easy and faster.
• Support ⦁ Support consistent and spontaneous
• Cache storing ⦁ Makes the website faster and enhances search engine
• Native front-end capabilities to crawl the web pages.
• Selectors ⦁ It holds a special features that is ability to re-position

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