title: What kind of language is CSS?
body: <p>What kind of language is CSS?</p>
  
  <p>My first inclination was to call it a markup language... but it doesn't really fit the mold:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>A markup language is a system for
    annotating a text in a way which is
    syntactically distinguishable from
    that text. -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language" rel="noreferrer">wikipedia</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>CSS uses various selectors to apply properties to elements <em>within</em> HTML, a markup language</p>