referencing colors used in palette instead of using hex code?

[Justin Hurd]

Hello all,
I was wondering how I could go about referencing the colors used in the palette instead of using the colors hexcode, so I can have it change color shemes to match other palettes, like this:

<div class="left">

<details  open style="text-align: center; width: 100%; border-radius: 12px; background-color:<<colour page-background>>;">

...

but when I try this, it doesn't seem to work, so i was wondering if someone could help/explain why, or where I'm going wrong.

If possible, explaining like I'm 5 would help, because I'm not very familiar with the terms used for TW5 (I just  learned what transclusion meant haha)

any help is really appreciated!

[TW Tones]

Justin,

This is because you can not concatinate text and the results of your macro  <<colour page-background>>  in the way you have. 

The resource I am developing is a reference work for all such tiddly wiki methods that will help a learner, but in this case you may specifically be interested the following;

• ❷ Widget and HTML attributes or parameters  
  

Eg <htmltag attribute= is equivalent to <details open style=

<div class="left">

<$wikify name=styles text="text-align: center; width: 100%; border-radius: 12px; background-color:<<colour page-background>>;">

<details  open style=<<styles>> >

Content

</details>

</$wikify>

</div>

The above is one solution but you can use others to evaluate the variable and concatenate the variable.

The same rules apply to  Widgets as well. 

Another example is;

\define styles() text-align: center; width: 100%; border-radius: 12px; background-color:<<colour page-background>>;

<div class="left">

<$wikify name=styles text="<<styles>>">

<details  open style=<<styles>> >

Content

</details>

</$wikify>

</div>

Regards

Tones

[Justin Hurd]

This is exactly what I was looking to do, thank you! I will admit I did have to google a word or two, but I think I understand how this functions, I'll have to read through your reference work as well, so I can get a better understanding of how this works.