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What is the difference between CSS and HTML?

March 7, 2012 admin Uncategorized

A long long time, Madonna was a virgin and a guy called Tim Berners Lee invented the Internet. Then HTML was really only used for text structure. Author was able to highlight text, he could define it as “this is a headline” or “this is a text paragraph.” This was done with HTML tags such as

accomplished.

When the Internet became popular, designers tried to look for new ways to create layouts of online documents. That is why browser producers (at the time Netscape and Microsoft) invented new HTML tags.

This also led to a situation in which actual structural tags such as

applied to the layout of pages instead of the written structure have been abused. Many new layout tags, such as was only supported by one browser. Messages like: “You need browser X to view this page” or “Optimized for browser X” were more and more common.

CSS was invented to resolve this situation by providing web designers a tool to create adequate design, which all browsers supported. At the same time, the separation of appearance and content of a page became much more easier.

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My name is Caroline Derringer. I work as a professional business advisor and university professor of economy. The content of this blog is based on a series of lectures that I delivered in a few major US universities. They will soon be published as a book, but for the time being you can read them online.

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