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title: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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### Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheets. It was first invented in 1996, and is now a standard feature of all major web browsers.
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CSS allows for developers to control how web pages look by "styling" the HTML structure of that page.
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CSS specifications are maintained by the [World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)](https://www.w3.org/).
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You can build some pretty amazing things in CSS alone, such as this pure-CSS [Minesweeper game](https://codepen.io/bali_balo/pen/BLJONk) (which uses no JavaScript).
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![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*GFcKk9KxqHAnWa1ECcKDOQ.png)
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#### Suggested Reading:
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A good start is the freeCodeCamp curriculum [Introduction to Basic CSS](https://learn.freecodecamp.org/responsive-web-design/basic-css).
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Another suggestion for beginners is W3C's [Starting with HTML + CSS](https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss) teaches how to create a style sheet.
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The site [CSS Zen Garden](http://www.csszengarden.com/) is a great example how the same html can be styled to look totally unique.
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For a demonstration of the power of CSS, check out [Species In Pieces](http://species-in-pieces.com/#).
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