History of CSS


CSS was invited by Hakon Wium Lie on October 10, 1994 and maintained through a group of people within the W3C called the CSS Working Group.
CSS Version
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 (CSS1) was came out of W3C as a recommendation in December 1996. This version describes the CSS language as well as a simple visual formatting model for all the HTML tags.
  • CSS2 was became a W3C recommendation in May 1998 and builds on CSS1. This version adds support for media-specific style sheets e.g. printers and aural devices, downloadable fonts, element positioning and tables.
  • CSS3 was became a W3C recommendation in June 1999 and builds on older versions CSS. It has divided into documentations is called as Modules and here each module having new extension features defined in CSS2.

CSS3 Modules
CSS3 Modules are having old CSS specifications as well as extension features.
  • Selectors
  • Box Model
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • Image Values and Replaced Content
  • Text EffectsText Effects
  • 2D/3D Transformations
  • Animations
  • Multiple Column Layout
  • User Interface
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