refer back to a style

[russellr]

Here's what I want to do:
.mystyle { color: white }
blah blah blah
.someotherstyle { mystyle }

Put simply, once I've defined a style, I want to use that definition to define other styles.

I can't find any way to do this, after an hour of searching the web

Please help.

 

[Boomerang]

I don't understand what you want to reach with that but you can combine to styles in a class like:

<A href=&quot;balabla&quot; class=&quot;mystyle.someotherstyle&quot; >
Erik

 

[baad]

may be pseudo-classes?

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/structure.html

& also here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#pseudo-classes-and-pseudo-elements

Victor

 

[russellr]

Thanks for the replies.

What I'm trying to do with the CSS is to create a simple &quot;variable&quot; which I can then refer to.

For example, I want to say that my background color is white in one place:

.bgnd { background: white }

then I want to refer to this information in several other places, for example:

.otherstyle { refer: bgnd; color: black }

So, if I ever want to change the background color, I only have to do it in one place, namely in the definition of &quot;bgnd&quot;.

This is typical programming stuff, and I can't believe there's not a way to do this in CSS.

Pseudo-selectors etc, seem to be about something else.

 

[baad]

woops, sorry Victor