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Update CSS variables docs
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- Rename available vars section to root vars and mention they're globally available
- Add new component vars section and link to table docs for WIP example
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mdo authored and olsza committed Oct 3, 2020
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**All our custom properties are prefixed with `bs-` to avoid conflicts with third party CSS.**

## Available variables
## Root variables

Here are the variables we include (note that the `:root` is required). They're located in our `_root.scss` file.
Here are the variables we include (note that the `:root` is required) that can be accessed anywhere Bootstrap's CSS is loaded. They're located in our `_root.scss` file and included in our compiled dist files.

{{< highlight css >}}
{{< root.inline >}}
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{{< /root.inline >}}
{{< /highlight >}}

## Component variables

We're also beginning to make use of custom properties as local variables for various components. By using CSS variables in this way, we can heavily reduce our compiled CSS, ensure that table styles aren't inherited, and allow you to dynamically restyle or extend Bootstrap components without recompiling Sass.

Have a look at our table documentation for some [insight into how we're using CSS variables]({{< docsref "/content/tables#how-do-the-variants-and-accented-tables-work" >}}).

## Examples

CSS variables offer similar flexibility to Sass's variables, but without the need for compilation before being served to the browser. For example, here we're resetting our page's font and link styles with CSS variables.
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