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Now, although CSX isn't the program language loud JavaScript, for example, be Java, CSX also has

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variables and the variables are relatively new in access and they actually existed back in session and

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access, not back in session.

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He because Cessna's says it's actually still exists and it's pretty powerful.

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And I would suggest learning it if he had the chance.

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Well, not the chance, the time, but yeah.

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So variables, what are they.

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But they're actually custom properties of success, sometimes referred to as success variables or cascading

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variables.

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And they are actually entities defined by the success alter or otherwise you.

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They contain specific values to be reused throughout the document.

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So what is the basic usage of a variable they are set using custom property notations for in this example,

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we set the primary color to white and the second we call to black and they can be accessed using the

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VA function and within parentheses, we'll just call upon what we want that variable to be.

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In our example down here, we have an H3 with the color of the of the primary color, which would be

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white and the back on color of the secondary color, which would be black.

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Declaring a custom property is done using a custom property name that begins with a double hyphen,

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as you can see right here.

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And a property value that can be any valued excess value like any other property.

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This is actually written inside a Rousset, which will take a look at later on in our example.

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Now, a complex Web site has very large amounts of success.

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For example, the same color might be used in hundreds of different places requiring global search and

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replaced if the color needs to change.

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Now, custom properties allow for a value to be stored in one place, then referred to in multiple other

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places.

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An additional benefit is semantic identifiers.

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OK, enough chitchat about variables, let's try out some.