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title: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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### Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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.
CSS allows for developers to control how web pages look by "styling" the HTML structure of that page.
CSS specifications are maintained by the [World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)](https://www.w3.org/).
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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![Minesweeper clone in CSS](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*GFcKk9KxqHAnWa1ECcKDOQ.png)
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#### Suggested Reading:
A good start is the freeCodeCamp curriculum [Introduction to Basic CSS](https://learn.freecodecamp.org/responsive-web-design/basic-css).
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.
The site [CSS Zen Garden](http://www.csszengarden.com/) is a great example how the same html can be styled to look totally unique.
For a demonstration of the power of CSS, check out [Species In Pieces](http://species-in-pieces.com/#).
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To find some awesome articles and summaries of Front End Development related ideas visit [CSS-Tricks](https://css-tricks.com)