It’s Time To Start Using CSS Custom Properties

<p>Smashing Magazine | Serg Hospodarets Today, CSS preprocessors are a standard for web development. One of the main advantages of preprocessors is that they enable you to use variables. This helps you to avoid copying and pasting code, and it simplifies development and refactoring. We use preprocessors to store colors, font preferences, layout […]</p>

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Smashing Magazine | Serg Hospodarets

Today, CSS preprocessors are a standard for web development. One of the main advantages of preprocessors is that they enable you to use variables. This helps you to avoid copying and pasting code, and it simplifies development and refactoring.

We use preprocessors to store colors, font preferences, layout details — mostly everything we use in CSS. But preprocessor variables have some limitations.

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