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Why do style sheets exist? Why are they separate from HTML?

April 26, 2017exist html separate sheets style

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Why do style sheets exist? Why are they separate from HTML?

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HTML was always intended to express the content and structure of web pages, rather than their appearance. The original HTML specification offered elements like (for citations), (anchor, for links), and

(paragraph). These express the structure and meaning of a document’s parts, but not the way those parts are expected to appear. The look and feel was left up to the programmers of the web browser and the preferences of the reader. Of course, designers clamored for better control over the appearance of web pages. Various “quick fixes” were introduced, like the and

elements, which are now discouraged. The difficulty with elements like these is that they do not express anything about the meaning of the page. What if the user is blind? What if the browser is actually a site-indexing program? Knowing that the text should be “red, and 24 pixels tall” doesn’t convey as much to these users as or

. A better solution is to let HTML elements express the str