Re: Better Variables through Custom Properties

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Rudolph Gottesheim
<r.gottesheim@loot.at> wrote:
> Am 25.10.2011 08:12, schrieb Tab Atkins Jr.:
>>
>> 1. "Whatever matches the 'term' production in the CSS2.1 grammar".
>> This is very loose, but it matches everything we might want to use.
>>
>> 2. Some subset of valid CSS values, like keywords, colors, numbers,
>> and dimensions.  This is easier to deal with (there's actually a
>> "grammar" for the properties), but might be too restrictive.
>>
>> In either case, it can be a list of values, separated by spaces,
>> commas, and/or slashes.
>
> Would something like the following work in either of those cases? I think it
> definately should.
>
> :root {
>        data-border-type: solid 1px;
>        data-border-color: #f00;
> }
> div {
>        border: data(border-type) data(border-color);
> }
>
> In other words: you shouldn't only be able to replace one of the values *or*
> a series of values but mix and match also. I hope I'm being clear.

Yes, that example would be doable in either approach.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:56:52 UTC