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Cascading Style Sheets

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Cascading Style Sheets

Summary

Cascading Style Sheets is a file format[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of file_format entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,258 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cascading Style Sheets's instance of is recorded as file format[3].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's instance of is recorded as programming language[4].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's instance of is recorded as style sheet language[5].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's developer is recorded as CSS Working Group[6].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's developer is recorded as Bert Bos[7].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's developer is recorded as Håkon Wium Lie[8].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's Commons category is recorded as Cascading Style Sheets[9].
  • December 17, 1996 marks the founding of Cascading Style Sheets[10].
  • Cascading Style Sheets was released on December 17, 1996[11].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's has edition or translation is recorded as Cascading Style Sheets Level 1[12].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's has edition or translation is recorded as Cascading Style Sheets Level 2[13].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's has edition or translation is recorded as Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1[14].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's has edition or translation is recorded as Cascading Style Sheets Level 3[15].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's official website is recorded as https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/[16].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's official website is recorded as https://drafts.csswg.org/[17].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cascading Style Sheets[18].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's described at URL is recorded as https://www.w3schools.com/whatis/whatis_css.asp[19].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's media type is recorded as text/css[20].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's file extension is recorded as css[21].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts[22].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's topic has template is recorded as Template:CSS[23].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's standards body is recorded as World Wide Web Consortium[24].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/css[25].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's used by is recorded as Cascading Style Sheets file format family[26].
  • Cascading Style Sheets's different from is recorded as Cascading Style Sheets file format family[27].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include file format[3], programming language[4], and style sheet language[5].

History and Context

December 17, 1996 marks the founding of Cascading Style Sheets[10].

Why It Matters

Cascading Style Sheets ranks in the top 2% of file_format entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,258 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

It has been cited as an influence by Sass[30], a style sheet language[31], founded in 2006[32] and Stylus[33], a style sheet language[34], founded in 2011[35].

FAQs

Who did Cascading Style Sheets influence?

Cascading Style Sheets has been cited as an influence by Sass[30] and Stylus[33].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . bu.edu. bu.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . stackoverflow.com. Retrieved . stackoverflow.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22d ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008485-kaskadove-styly
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0008485-kaskadove-styly, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  2. 25d ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-06-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Foldoc id → Cascading+Style+Sheets
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P12946]]: CSS, import FOLDOC ID ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/wikibase-cli/36ecd009bcfe7/|details]])"
  3. 8w ago · Charp238 · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Cascading Style Sheets file format family
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1889]]: [[Q5014366]]"
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