Comments on: CSS Variables

By: rolfen

rolfen — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:27:36 +0000

The current alternative is including PHP code into you css, or doing extensive replace every time you want to change a common color.
CSS was originally take away style from HTML and centralise it in a single place. Variables only take this further.
Performance has never been the primary concern in web technologies, whether it is a good thing or now, I dont know.

By: Sitin

Sitin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:31:26 +0000

The only advantage of CSS variables is to use their definitions in separate files. In this case we can divide “static” and “dinamic” parts of the style. It saves some server-side time avoiding css parsing for simle task. And if it is not (the variable scope is only curent file) I agree with Jason that styles must be simple to implement on the client side and css is not a programming language.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:07:36 +0000

Hi Prakash. It’s not available to use yet but is proposed for CSS3 so hopefulyl we’ll see it at some point in the future.

By: Prakash

Prakash — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:32:12 +0000

Hi, I used this variable substitution and checked but no result. am using ie6 and firefox 3. anything i have to include for this to work?

By: Гамлет

Гамлет — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:40:48 +0000

Интересно. Вообще чтение вашего блога это не просто глупое просматривание новостей или чтениебреда про то, чем человек сегодня занимался, а нахождение реально занимательной информации.

By: Gerrit

Gerrit — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:08:32 +0000

Another interesting issue is to use PHP-Script for your CSS files. You can put in as many vars as you like and even change the look of your site depending on almost everything

just make a php-file and change headers to css

header(“Content-type: text/css”);

this is really thrilling!

regards,
gerrit

By: JavaScript in CSS, Ugly But Intresting | dtsn

JavaScript in CSS, Ugly But Intresting | dtsn — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:52:07 +0000

[...] Expression suddenly came to me as a solution for the currently much debated feature (here and here) of variables in CSS3. This could theoretically be currently achieved through the use of [...]

By: James Hopkins

James Hopkins — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:27:41 +0000

@Dave: An implementation (based on the initial proposal draft by Hyatt/Glazman) was incorporated into Webkit nightlies from March ‘08 to around September time, but was removed due to concerns regarding feature adoption by authors (and therefore reliance) before the spec had any time to mature.

If any of your readers are interested, I’ve published an article (http://www.css3.info/summary-of-the-two-current-css-constants-proposals/) summarising the initial spec, and a counter-proposal that has come about.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:41:13 +0000

Hi Naren, this is only propsed for future CSS so definitely isn’t in use yet although I think I remember reading somewhere that a nightly build of Safari had implemented it.

In any case, it’ll be years before all the common browsers (especially IE) have implemented this successfully.

By: Naren

Naren — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:15:43 +0000

Guys,
Let me know whether this variables works in all PC browsers
Thanks in advance