Re: Better Variables through Custom Properties

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:41, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:

> I take it from Tab's "similar to the data-* attributes in HTML" that
> these are not HTML data attributes and would not be exposed in a
> writable way via DOM/script?
>

No, but AFAICT there shouldn't be a reason to not make HTML data attributes
accessible via attr(), i.e.

[data-foo] {
  data-foo: attr(data-foo);
}

With this you could write to the HTML data attribute and the CSS variable
(same name not required) should pick it up.


- Roland