He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards, most notably CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a technique for managing how HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is displayed.

[3] Meyer graduated from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in 1992 with a BA in History, and minors in artificial intelligence, astronomy, and English.

[5] In 2014, his second daughter Rebecca Alison Meyer died of a brain tumor on her sixth birthday.

[11] A columnist since 1997,[4] a book author and frequent conference speaker on CSS since 2000, Meyer has attained celebrity status in the field of web design.

[13] In 2008, Meyer supported a Microsoft proposal for Internet Explorer 8 related to backwards compatibility modes for rendering invalid HTML and other markup.