Why separate content (HTML) from presentation (CSS)?
Channel: internet-class
Date: 2016-09-29

With the introduction of cascading style sheets (CSS), web pages separated the content and semantics contained in the HTML from presentation logic contained in the CSS. This separation is both useful and very powerful. It helps create compact HTML and helps sites create a consistent look across multiple web pages.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

Part of the https://www.internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.