Instead of using custom properties to style whole portions of a website’s interface I think we should use them to customize and modify tiny components. Here’s why.
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See the Pen Theming a site with CSS Custom Properties by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.
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See how nice and tidy that is? With just a few lines of CSS we’ve created a whole system of buttons – we could easily change the font-size or add animations or anything else and keep our classes nice and small without messing with the global scope of our CSS. Especially since all this code is likely to live in a single file like buttons.scss it’s helpful that all the logic exists in one place.
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