What is CSS
CSS: or (Cascading Style Sheets) is a computer based language, that allows for HTML documents to be managed in an appealing way. This language was developed in 1996 by Hakon Wium Lee and Bert Bos. Some of the changes users can make is to change the format, colour and resolution of an HTML document to make it prettier for the websites end user. Even though it was released in 1996 many bugs prevented its full adoption until 4 years later.
It gets its name by the way the document is set up, as the content flows down the page like a waterfall. This language was a huge win for website development as, many internet users base their entire confidence on a business by the design and layout of the website. Without CSS many websites would look unappealing and would not be able to support many of the features we love today such as formatting for mobile devices. This is an important feature in todays world as according to This Article in the first quarter of 2019 48.71% of all website traffic was from mobile devices,and that 1.4 trillion USD in retail sales coming from mobile platforms alone.
While there is many other features that CSS can enable, I found mobile formatting to be the most important, as a large majority of my browsing is done on my iphone and before i got started on my coding journey I didn’t think of how websites needed to evolve to keep up with the digital age.In my short experience in computer coding, I felt that cascading style sheets was easier to learn the basics versus HTML as many of the formats can be easily accessed online.
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- Statista Study on Percentage of Mobile Searches:
- Statista Study On Share Of Website Traffic Coming From Mobile Devices