What is CSS?

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is unique because it doesn't create any new elements, like HTML or JavaScript. Instead, it's a language used to style HTML elements. CSS was first proposed by Håkon Wium Lie on 10 October 1994.

Who is Håkon Wium Lie?

Håkon Wium Lie (born July 26, 1965, in Halden, Norway,) is a Norwegian web pioneer, a guidelines dissident, and the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software. He is most popular for creating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994. CSS describes how web pages are presented — on screens, in print, or read out loud. As you know that Tim Berners Lee already invented Html (Hypertext Markup Language), for adding style and giving a handsome look, we use CSS in the HTML document.

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Håkon Wium Lie | Inventor of CSS
Håkon Wium Lie

A few simple Commands in CSS

1. Background-color

The background-color property sets the background color of an element.

2. Font-Size

The font-size property sets the size of the text.

3. Borders

The CSS border properties allow you to specify the style, width, and color of an element's border.