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-In early days of web there was no visual elements, just pure text. But with the
-further development of browser fully visual web pages also became common.
+In the early days of the web there were no visual elements, just pure text. But with the
+further development of browsers, fully visual web pages also became common.
CSS is the standard language that exists to keep the separation between
the content (HTML) and the look-and-feel of web pages.
In short, what CSS does is to provide a syntax that enables you to target
different elements on an HTML page and assign different visual properties to them.
-Like any other language, CSS has many versions. Here we focus on CSS2.0
-which is not the most recent but the most widely supported and compatible version.
+Like any other languages, CSS has many versions. Here we focus on CSS2.0,
+which is not the most recent version, but is the most widely supported and compatible version.
-**NOTE:** Because the outcome of CSS is some visual effects, in order to
-learn it, you need try all different things in a
+**NOTE:** Because the outcome of CSS consists of visual effects, in order to
+learn it, you need try everything in a
CSS playground like [dabblet](http://dabblet.com/).
The main focus of this article is on the syntax and some general tips.