October 10, 1994
Håkon Wium Lie proposes CSS
Håkon Wium Lie published Cascading HTMLHyperText Markup Language — the standard markup for structuring web pages. Style Sheets — a proposal on October 10, 1994 while at CERN.
What it was for
CSSCascading Style Sheets — the language for layout, color, and typography on web pages. separated presentation from HTMLHyperText Markup Language — the standard markup for structuring web pages. structure — letting authors suggest fonts and layout while users could override styles. Every modern website still depends on the cascading model Lie proposed at CERN.
People
- Håkon Wium Lie — author
Companies
- W3C
Why it's here
CSSCascading Style Sheets — the language for layout, color, and typography on web pages. is the presentation layer of the open web.
Why it mattered
It ended the era of presentational HTMLHyperText Markup Language — the standard markup for structuring web pages. tags and font tags in markup.
What it solved
Authors could not style pages consistently without polluting HTMLHyperText Markup Language — the standard markup for structuring web pages. with layout tags.
Media
ImageHåkon Wium LieKmosman, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Related
- WorldWideWeb — first web browserDecember 1990
- HTML invented1991