During the recent years, CSS variables have sparked a lot of debate. On one hand, there are those who have been asking for them to be included and finding various workarounds to add a more programmatic approach to CSS. On the other side of the coin are those who argue that CSS variables have no place in a language that is supposed to handle the presentation of elements. However, with the release of Chrome 49 and Firefox 43, it’s clear that CSS variables are now available in the form of custom properties and...
currentColor is a CSS variable-like feature that's been around for quite awhile now and has reasonably good browser support (it's supported by all modern browsers and their mobile counterparts, and even IE9+, though bugs have been reported in mobile Safari). While most variables are still being used with preprocessors until support becomes more widely established, currentColor can be used as-is. currentColor is super useful under some specific circumstances, and well worth learning (especially...
If there is one thing a language needs to qualify as a programming language, it’s variables; they’re incredibly useful, save us a bunch of work and typing, and improve coding all-round. This is exactly what CSS didn’t have. Pre-processors like Sass and Less used them, but vanilla CSS never had variables. Until now. They’ve been on the horizon for a while, but only recently have variables started to be implemented in CSS, let’s take a look at how they work. Browser support ... Currently CSS...