Evolution of Cascading Style Sheets(CSS)

December 28, 2006 at 10:54 am | Posted in CSS, Education, Tech | 1 Comment

The Web has come a long way from the all-Text beginning.In the beginning stage, Web used Images and wrapped the text around them and then,as the importance for the presentation increased new HTML tags and attributes were introduced for the presentation purpose.Also the popular browsers of that time namely Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator(due to mere competition) provided various ways to support the new tags.

Although all this were appreciated it did came with a problem. HTML was basically invented to display the content to the user but now it was used for presentation purpose. And also it became difficult to maintain larger Websites. So World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) came with Cascading Style Sheets(CSS) as a solution.

CSS separated the content from the presentation and it simplified the way of developing websites. W3C released its first specification of CSS in 1996. The version 4 browsers of Navigator and Internet Explorer started supporting CSS. And at present it is widely adopted for the presentation.