One of the big battles we see in the web development world is still CSS vs. JavaScript. Both have their merits, their own syntax and ideas and it can be tough to get your head around them.

This is why I love that we have ways to make the two communicate and use each for what it is best at. For one thing, I always found it annoying to manipulate the styles object of a DOM element. It meant accessing the element and setting the various style properties. In the end, it resulted in an inline style attribute you’d never write by hand.

A much cleaner way to me is to use CSS custom properties. These are commonly called “CSS variables” and you define them in CSS using the—syntax.

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