Now in its third X, Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, has come a long way. But how did it emerge?
The history of CSS goes back to a time when the way websites looked was minimal. Håkon Wium Lie, who was working at CERN then, came up with the first idea for CSS in 1994. The aim was to make web pages separate from HTML and easy to format. In 1996, the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, adopted Lie’s idea, which, simple though it may seem, revolutionized the web. Interestingly, Microsoft Explorer was the first browser to support the development. One can imagine that this is why it quickly became so popular in the market. Problémát jelentett azonban a CSS számára, hogy egyes böngészők más és más módon jelenítették meg a weblapokat. Over the years, however, it has been updated to meet modern needs and now allows complex animations.