Title: CSS variables in admin
Last modified: April 20, 2020

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# CSS variables in admin

 *  Resolved [Dave Loodts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davelo/)
 * (@davelo)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-variables-in-admin/)
 * Hi, thanks for the amazing plugin!
 * Is there a way to get the CSS variables in the admin?
    So we can use those variables
   in our editor styles too.
 * Thanks!
    Dave

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 *  Plugin Author [Daniel Menȝies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kungtiger/)
 * (@kungtiger)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-variables-in-admin/#post-12714928)
 * Hi Dave,
 * yes, that can be done. I’ll get to it later today.
 *  Plugin Author [Daniel Menȝies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kungtiger/)
 * (@kungtiger)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-variables-in-admin/#post-12716163)
 * Version 1.14.7 is released. Added an option that adds CSS variables to the dashboard
   as well.
 *  Thread Starter [Dave Loodts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davelo/)
 * (@davelo)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-variables-in-admin/#post-12738063)
 * Thank you, thank you, thank you!
 *  [fippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgilfillan/)
 * (@dgilfillan)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-variables-in-admin/#post-12765379)
 * Hi, could you clarify where on the dashboard these appear?
 * With this option checked, I go to my WP dashboard and I have the following screen
   options:
 * Boxes
    Site Health Status At a Glance Activity Newsletter Quick Draft WordPress
   Events and News Welcome
 * no CSS variables?
 *  Plugin Author [Daniel Menȝies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kungtiger/)
 * (@kungtiger)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-variables-in-admin/#post-12765574)
 * CSS Variables are a relatively new addition to the CSS specification and do not
   show up directly on the WP dashboard like those boxes you referred to. They are
   a programming aid for theme and plugin developers. CSS is a programming language
   which you can use to style a web document, anything from size, positioning, including
   colour and so forth.
 * For more details on what they are and what you can do with them please have a
   look at [Using CSS custom properties (variables) [MDN web docs]](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_custom_properties).
 *  [loxlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loxlie/)
 * (@loxlie)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-variables-in-admin/#post-13040996)
 * Here’s a way to get the current admin theme colors as CSS variables:
    [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/369713/181870](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/369713/181870)

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 * [dashboard](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dashboard/)
 * [variables](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/variables/)

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 * Last reply from: [loxlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loxlie/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-variables-in-admin/#post-13040996)
 * Status: resolved