Re: Better Variables through Custom Properties

I guess that's really more a question for css values and units in general :)

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:
> What if you had
>
> #x {
>    data-foo: attr(data-foo);
> }
>
> and then in script you change the value of the attribute 'data-foo'?
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Roland Steiner
> <rolandsteiner@google.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
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