October 26, 2004
Using MTSetVar for stylesheets
One of the most powerful and least-known sets of tags for Movable Type is the MTSetVar and MTGetVar pair, which Elise uses to good effect to set standard colors at the top of a CSS template and then retrieves wherever that color is used in the template.
Creating variables this way isn't limited to CSS templates, of course, and there are many clever ways to use this functionality in HTML templates as well.
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