Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

HTML was originally developed to present the same information in an unequivocal way on various platforms such as Windows, Unix and Macintosh. In the beginning design did not play a part. However, with the increasing use of Internet a greater/growing need/desire also arose to be able to influence the design. HTML elements such as tables were used for instance in order to determine the position of a block of text (with)in the webpage. However, this resulted in the webpage no longer looking the same on every platform and in every internet browser.

In order to better separate the structure of the presentation and at the same time to realize a more equivocal presentation, so-called Style Sheets have been developed. On the one hand the structure and contents of the webpage is described with the aid of HTML elements (called tags), while on the other hand the presentation of the webpage is now determined by the styles defined in the Style Sheets.
The language/tool with which the Style Sheets are designed, is called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
CSS has been applied in this website to:

You can find a more complicated description of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on the following website: 'De Nederlandse informatiebron op het gebied van HTML en CSS'