The recent addition to CSS of Custom Properties, a.k.a. CSS variables, was a very welcome addition to the language. It's opened the door for a lot ...
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Thanks for writing this up, this is really interesting! I love deep dives like this into things I've never really paid much attention to.
I also really like how you walk through the steps of how you'd expect things to work, which includes running into issues and figuring out what you need to fix to make it work. It makes it much easier to understand how things work, and why you might need to write things a specific way.
Looking forward to future posts!
Thanks! 😁 I usually find that working through weird errors and unexpected behaviors is the best way to really learn the details of a feature, so I like to show that. I'm glad someone else appreciates the approach!
My favorite use of currentColor is setting an outline (or border) color on anchors in focus. A quick win to improve keyboard accessibility. For example: a:focus {outline: 3px dotted currentColor;}. Cheers!
Awesome article! One thing bothers me (a lot): it should be called
current-colorlike everything else in CSSHa, I know what you mean, it does seem a little inconsistent. But it actually follows the standard pattern for color names, like "MediumVioletRed", "DarkOliveGreen", or "RebeccaPurple". CSS treats these names case-insensitively, so I actually write all lowercase
currentcolormost of the time.Same.
interesting! I wasn't aware this is something from CSS. Thanks for digging and sharing it with us.