non-random ramble » css http://jimbarritt.com/non-random adventures in code Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:16:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Simple Color Constants For CSS http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2006/09/18/simple-color-constants-for-css/ http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2006/09/18/simple-color-constants-for-css/#comments Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:20:08 +0000 Jim Barritt http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2006/09/18/simple-color-constants-for-css/ Ok So CSS doesn’t have a way to declare constants.

But yet you always want a set of constant colors?

I discovered a simple method which is manual but works.

All you do is :


#116611/*text*/
#1A801A/*border*/
#FFFFFF/*high-text*/
#9966FF/*high-bg*/
#FFFFFF/*page-bg*/

Then whenever you reference a color:

div#sitemast { color:#116611/*text*/; }

now all you have to do if you want to change a color globally is use your editor to do a global search and replace.

This is more efficient than simply S/R on the hex value – what if you have 2 types of element which are the same color in one scheme but not another?

Next I would love to write a simple plugin for intellij which does this for you!

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