The power of CSS

Cascading Style Sheets is a specification for adding style to HTML documents for viewing on the internet. This standard has been around since 1994 and was one of the first steps in separating data and display in documents, including this one. As a result, CSS is used for the display and arrangement of data on webpages. One of the most impressive websites which displays the power of CSS is CSS Zen Garden. This website has many examples of designs which use the same html file with different sytlesheets. Unfortunately, CSS is not XML and therefore is mostly limited to the web. Other style formats such as XSL which are XML based can be used on many devices more easily than CSS. This is a problem since the recent development of XHTML is moving more towards XML based data structures. While CSS is currently the only option for style sheets on the internet, in the future it may prove to be incompatible with the XML based languages.