CSS Variables (officially known as custom properties) are user defined values that can be set once and used many times throughout your codebase. They make it easier to manage colors, fonts, size, and animation
When to use CSS Variables?permalink That’s a good question. I think it’s essential you don’t re-use code; it’s pretty useless to type the same code over and over, so anything that is re-used, you should make a variable for. ...
Sass Variables are a way to store information that you want to reuse throughout your stylesheet.Variables are coming to CSS, but there’snot much support at the momentand it’s going to be awhile before you can use them. Fortunately they’re available in Sass right now and they’re easy...
Before CSS variables, this was the only way to write declarations. If you wanted something resembling variables in CSS, you would need to use a preprocessing language likeSass(which is incorporated into CSS frameworks likeBootstrap). However, CSS variables now provide another way to style page e...
CSS Variables - How to Use CSS Custom Properties - Learn how to effectively use CSS variables (custom properties) to create dynamic styles and enhance your web design.
VueJs. There’s a problem. I still want to have my Sass variables, functions and mixins available to all my single file Vue components. I also want to have a bunch if global CSS utility classes being created using the same variables, functions and mixins. H...
To initialize a CSS variable, prefix the variable name with double hyphens: :root{ /*CSS variable*/ --variable_name: value; } You can initialize a variable anywhere but note that you will only be able to use that variable inside the initialized selector. Because of this, CSS variables ar...
In this article, we’ll explore what makes CSS variables special, why we should use them, some ways they can benefit us, and the best practices we should follow to create better themes. It is worth noting that CSS variables are now supported by 96.19% of all browsers globally. Let’s ...
If you’d like, you can refactor this code to use CSS Custom Properties to create variables at the global level! :root { margin: 0; padding: 0; --primary-color: #0000FF; --body-fonts: "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif; --line-height: 1.5; } p { color: var(--primary-color);...
Add that to the CSS file, and then add this:@layer base { html { font-family: Inter, system-ui, sans-serif; } }In the end, your CSS file will look like this:@tailwind base; @tailwind components; @tailwind utilities; @import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:...