css precompilers
These let you use parts of CSS 3 and some additional syntactic sugar, then get processed into regular css. I have it on my list to look at the output and see how livable it is.
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css-like selectors to create html
http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/
*3 means repeat 3 times
$ means “insert iteration number here”
div#thing>ul*3>li#it-$*3>a+
table>tr*2>td*3>table+