CSS Chat Summary: 14 October 2021

The meeting took place here on Slack. @wazeter facilitated and @danfarrow wrote up these notes.

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Custom Properties (#49930)

• @wazeter shared the planning document and noted that we’re in the final stages of migrating existing colour properties to CSS custom-properties
• @dryanpress is working on reducing the huge number of custom properties in customize-control.css, a process which has revealed hex values shared by multiple properties. These could effectively be replaced by additional theme properties
• @wazeter noted that sometimes in larger files it’s better to avoid find-and-replacing colour values and instead to go through logical property groupings e.g. box-shadows, then background etc.
• @wazeter shared a link to every-layout.dev which outlines an approach to CSS architecture which could be relevant to this project, and which demonstrates the need for a good set of default custom properties
• This led to a conversation about the next steps, in particular the documentation and Table of Contents (TOC) which will accompany the custom-property roll-out

Thanks everybody!

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