User constant declarations in style sheets

Hi there.

I was wondering if it would be possible to implement the 
declaration of constants and/or variables at the head of 
each external and internal style sheet.

Eg. for positioning div blocks, instead of having to hard 
code the top: and left: property value in each rule 
declaration, what about something like this:

/* start of style sheet */

CONST: top_value = 200px, left_value = 20%, 
       col_width = 20%, another_val = 2.5em;

VAR: my_fav_color = blue, cool_border_color = white,
     dd_menu_top = 89px, left_margin_width = 30px,
     spacer_value = top_value + 30px;

/* end of CONST and VAR declaration block */

 #top_logo {
  /* display: block; item is visible */
  /* display: none;  item is NOT visible */
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  top: 5px;
  left: 1%;
  right 1%;
  width: 98%;
  height: 80px;
  border: 1px solid red;
  background-image: url(./triplegears.jpg);
  background-position: 250px;
  color: white;
  text-align: center;
 }

 #left_nav_menu {
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  top: dd_menu_top;   /* uses a user-defined variable */
  left: 1%;
  width: 20%;
  border: 1px solid red;
 }

 /* anchor links in menus */

 #left_nav_menu a {
  display: block;
  color: my_fav_color; /* user-defined variable */
  background-color: transparent;
  text-decoration: none;
  font-weight: normal;
  margin: 2px;
 }

 #right_column {
  /* display: block; item is visible */
  /* display: none;  item is NOT visible */
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  top: dd_menu_top;   /* user-defined variable */
  right: 1%;
  width: 20%;
  widht: col_width; /* user-defined variable */
  border: 1px solid red;
 }

So changes to the value dd_menu_top, for example,  are made 
in one place, at the start of the style sheet. These changes would 
then be reflected through the rest of the style sheet.

So. if I wanted position a drop down menu system at a 
certain absolute pixel value on a page, all I need to do is 
to change the value assigned to dd_menu_top variable, at the 
start of the style sheet.

Is this feasable in CSS 3?

Kind Regards - Keith Roberts

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Received on Sunday, 24 April 2005 01:19:42 UTC