- From: Ben Godfrey <afternoon@uk2.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 20:50:41 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Definitely.
There would be no need to change the values, so variable is just a bad
choice of word on my part.
Ben
On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 19:10 Europe/London, Matt wrote:
>
> Ben Godfrey wrote:
>>> What about every other value? Wouldn't it be great to be able to
>>> declare "variables" at the top of a stylesheet and reference them
>>> where needed. Color schemes are the example that spring to mind.
>>
>> This would be a powerful way to modularise complicated stylesheets.
>> One could set variables and import a set of styles to make use of
>> those variables, similar to the way that XSL is sometimes
>> modularised.
>>
>> This can be done at the moment with the approach of assigning
>> selectors to properties rather than vice versa mentioned
>> previously, but providing variables would increase the separation
>> and maintainability of the individual files. This could be very
>> useful in environments with large disparate sites and teams.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to use contants instead of variables? Perhaps an
> @-rule:
>
> @constants {
> %mycolour%: #ffc;
> %myothercolor%: #cce;
> %mylength: 2em;
> }
>
> p {
> color: %mycolor%;
> margin-top: %my-length%;
> }
> etc.
>
> Matt
>
>
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