Cascading Style Sheets

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/cascading-style-sheets

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the year of initial proposal?1994
2. What is the core principle?Separation of content structure (HTML) from presentation (CSS)
3. What is Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)?CSS is a language that tells a web page how to look. It lets designers choose colors, fonts, and layout without changing the page’s content.
4. Why do websites use CSS instead of putting styles directly in the HTML?CSS keeps the page’s structure separate from its appearance. This makes it easier to update the look of many pages at once and helps the page load faster.

Specificity: A calculation that determines which CSS rule applies when multiple rules target the same element.
Box Model: A rendering model where each element is treated as a rectangular box with content, padding, border, and margin.
Responsive Design: Web design techniques that allow a website's layout to adapt fluidly to different screen sizes and resolutions.
CSS Framework: A pre-written library of CSS code that provides ready-to-use components and styles to speed up development.