A document that describes the presentation and formatting rules for a markup document, typically used in web design with CSS. It separates content from visual styling.
Compound of 'style' (from Latin 'stilus', writing instrument) and 'sheet' (Old English 'sceata', cloth). The term emerged with the development of CSS in the 1990s for web document formatting.
Stylesheets revolutionized web design by solving the problem of mixing content with presentation—imagine if every paragraph in a book had to specify its own font and color! This separation of concerns became a fundamental principle in web development.
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