- From: Lea Verou via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:28:59 +0000
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@andruud
> ```css
> @property {
> syntax: "<length>";
> inherits: false;
> initial-value: 2147483647px;
> --width: initial; /* 2147483647px */
> --height: initial; /* 2147483647px */
> --depth: 0px;
> }
> ```
I found this _incredibly_ confusing to understand. At first it looked like these were local variables to compute the initial value. My next guess was that they were longhands, and the property being defined was a shorthand. It took a _while_ to realize what it was doing.
Compare to something like this, which is pretty self-explanatory:
```css
@property --width, --height, --depth {
syntax: "";
inherits: false;
initial-value: 2147483647px;
}
@property --depth {
initial-value: 0px;
}
```
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