- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:13:50 +0000
- To: www-style CSS <www-style@w3.org>
Jens Meiert wrote: > Apparently, Carmelo Capinpin already suggested the concept in 2006 [1] (with few success, unfortunately [2]), but I may propose to consider something like “selector variables” in CSS 3 again in order to help both maintainability and style sheet efficiency. > > The basic idea is to syntactically allow definitions like > > E = F; > > … so that rules matching E would match F as well (and the other way around), while variable (or synonym) declarations could probably be located at the beginning of a style sheet or within a certain @-rule. > Could you explain how this would interact with the cascade, in particular: - how does it interact with !important rules; - what is the scope of the effect. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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