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### What is CSS? ### What is CSS?
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) describe how the html on a page should appear. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) describe how the html on a page should appear.
CSS was first proposed way back in 1994 by Håkon Wium Lie, who was working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
Before CSS, developers would apply styles using attributes or special tags on each node of a page. This made markup repetitive and prone to errors. Before CSS, developers would apply styles using attributes or special tags on each node of a page. This made markup repetitive and prone to errors.
CSS allows selectors to describe how each piece of matching content should look. CSS allows selectors to describe how each piece of matching content should look. It is an important technology of World Wide Web, along with HTML and Javascript.
```CSS ```CSS
body { body {
font-size: 15px; font-size: 15px;
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* [CSS-Tricks Almanac](https://css-tricks.com/almanac/) * [CSS-Tricks Almanac](https://css-tricks.com/almanac/)
* [Sitepoint](https://www.sitepoint.com/html-css/?ref_source=github) * [Sitepoint](https://www.sitepoint.com/html-css/?ref_source=github)
* [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Introduction_to_CSS) * [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Introduction_to_CSS)
* [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets)