STYLES SOLVE A COMMON PROBLEM
Styles
Solve a Common Problem
HTML tags were originally designed to define the
content of a document. They were supposed to say "This is a header",
"This is a paragraph", "This is a table", by using tags
like <h1>, <p>, <table>, and so on. The layout of the
document was supposed to be taken care of by the browser, without using any
formatting tags. As the two major browsers - Netscape and Internet Explorer -
continued to add new HTML tags and attributes (like the <font> tag and
the color attribute) to the original HTML specification, it became more and
more difficult to create Web sites where the content of HTML documents was
clearly separated from the document's presentation layout. To solve this
problem, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - the non profit, standard setting
consortium, responsible for standardizing HTML - created STYLES in addition to
HTML 4.0. All major browsers support Cascading Style Sheets.
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