Stylesheets - Defining CSS style references/shortcuts/aliases

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Defining CSS style references/shortcuts/aliases

Nedron

2006-04-13, 10:52 pm

Is there any mechanism within CSS to create a named alias and then use
that alias in later CSS directives?

Basically, something like #DEFINE in C.

I'd like to do something like...

color-foo.css
=========
define Color1 #FF00EE;
define Color1 #FFAAFF;

color-bar.css
=========
define Color1 #AA55CC;
define Color1 #AAAAFF;

test.css
======
@import url("color-foo.css");
h1 { color: Color1; }
h2 { color: Color2; }

I'd like to do this so that I can change my color palette by simply
changing the import in test.css.

Any ideas?

-David

David Dorward

2006-04-14, 6:44 am

Nedron wrote:

> Is there any mechanism within CSS to create a named alias and then use
> that alias in later CSS directives?

No, but you can use a preprocessor to convert your "CSS with some aliases in
it" file to regular CSS.

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/cpre.html for example.

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