HTML is a markup language used to structure and organize content on webpages, while CSS is used to control their visual appearance. They are used for making websites and have had lots of updates and changes over the past 30+ years, starting from the first version of html and css to the current most updated versions.
On this website I will talk about the different versions of HTML and CSS, what they are used for and what changes were made
In 1991, the first version of HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee, a physicist at the CERN research institute in Switzerland. Since then, there has been 5 different versions of HTML. HTML went from having 18 tags to now having 140 tags.
HTML 2.0 was released in 1995, it had all the features HTML 1.0 had along with a few extra features. HTML 2.0 was the standard markup language for website designing and creation until January 1997, when Dave Raggett introduced a new version of HTML, HTML 3.0. It has new and improved features of HTML, allowing brand new powerful characteristics to a website, a downside of these new features was that they slowed down the browser. Then in 1999 HTML 4.01 was released, offering new features and more compatible with web browsers. It remained the most popular version of HTML until HTML 5.0 was released in 2012. HTML 5.0 is the newest version of HTML and is the standard markup language for creating Web pages, it has the most features and is extremely compatible with all browsers.
HTML Version | Year |
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HTML Invented | 1991 |
HTML 1.0 Released | 1993 |
HTML 2.0 Released | 1995 |
HTML 3.0 Released | 1997 |
HTML 4.0 Released | 1999 |
HTML 5.0 Released | 2014 |
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) was created HÃ¥kon Wium Lie in 1994, to allow web designers to change the layout, colours, and fonts of their websites. On the right is a picture of HÃ¥kon Wium Lie. It started with CSS1 in 1996, which did basic things like changing fonts and colours. Then came CSS2 in 1998, which added more tricks like positioning stuff on a page. In 2004 CSS2.1 was released and fixed some issues. CSS3 versions were then released throughout the 2000’s, which are like a toolkit with fancy features like rounded corners and animations.
CSS Version | Year |
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CSS Idea Proposed | 1994 |
CSS 1.0 Released | 1996 |
CSS 2.0 Released | 1998 |
CSS 2.1 Released | 2011 |
CSS3 Released | 2000's |
There has been many HTML Tags over the years, these are the ones I have used in the creation of this website:
I used many different CSS Tags to help me create my web page. These are some of the ones I have used:
Here are the sources I used to create this website: