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Reference
Glossary
StylesheetsStylesheets are a concept taken from the world of print, creating a way to separate the form from the structure of a document. In your newspaper
publishing enterprise, you might use stylesheets to set the headlines and
body copy. If you've created a stylesheet for the sports section, for
example, you could simply invoke the style "sports" and easily refer the
typesetters to the stylesheet for a section that has not only headlines and
body copy, but also small type for statistics. In 1996, stylesheets
appeared as a way to enhance HTML's limited visual design capabilities.
Also known as cascading stylesheets (CSS), CSS became a simple mechanism
for controlling the style of a Web document without compromising its
structure. By separating visual design elements (fonts, colors, margins,
etc.) from the structural logic of a Web page, CSS gave Web designers the
control they craved without sacrificing the integrity of the data.
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