Using CSS custom properties like this is a waste
Channel: Kevin Powell
Date: 2023-10-12

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Custom properties are amazing, but a lot of people don’t take advantage of how awesome they are. They set them up in the :root  and that’s it, but they can be so much more useful than that! So, in this video I explore how we take them up a notch and make our code a lot more efficient in the process.

🔗 Links 
✅ ICodeThis: https://icodethis.com/?ref=kevin
✅ Lea Verou’s article on pseudo-private properties: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2021/10/custom-properties-with-defaults/
✅ The starting code from this video: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/QWzZaMz
✅ The final code from this video: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/RwEqEyV

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⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:45 - Setting up locally scoped custom properties
07:30 - Why this is so useful
11:00 - iCodeThis
11:40 - Changing one value instead of redeclaring property
14:10 - Creating new variations is so easy

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