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Hand2Mouth

I was customising my Tumblr theme and found this:


<meta name="color:Background" content="#E3E3E3" />
<meta name="color:Top Border Color" content="#f9382d" />
<meta name="color:Body Text" content="#373737" />
<meta name="color:Link Color" content="#3e8fa0" />
  
<meta name="color:Triangle One Color" content="#66a22c" />
<meta name="color:Triangle Two Color" content="#ffdc24" />

Then in the CSS:


article h3 a span { color:{color:Top Border Color}; font-weight:bold; }

Is the first time i see this and i wanted to share :) What are the pros of using this except not repeating the color more than once? Do you know who came up first with this idea?

spadooky

i recently worked on a project where the programmer used php to declare the main colors and bits in the stylesheet. it was a lot easier to remember "header color" and "body text color" than #aiusdhfapiufa9w (<-- slight exaggeration, but you get the idea).

TT_Mark

The PHP in CSS is quite easy as Chris kindly explained a few years back http://css-tricks.com/css-variables-with-php/

The meta one is completely new on me!

TheDoc

This is ONLY for Tumblr.

It's a way to allow users to set their own values for colors.

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