CSS history

The work on CSS started at CERN in 1994 and CSS1 became a W3C Recommendation in December 1996. In between, numerous CSS draft specifications were published and they are all linked below.

The earliest proposal (dated 95/10/10) included some exciting ideas that never made it past the brainstorming stage.

• as of 12 Nov 96
• as of 11 Sep 96
• as of 26 July 96
• as of 05 May 96
• as of 20 Feb 96
• as of 22 Dec 95
• as of 09 Dec 95
• as of 23 Nov 95
• as of 17 Nov 95

The previous, more informal, document series addressed both CSS level 1 and level 2:

95/11/1:

Fifth revision

95/10/6:

Fourth revision

95/8/10:

Third revision

95/7/3:

Second revision

95/5/31:

Initial draft specification