diff --git a/templates/CSS.xml b/templates/CSS.xml
index 41d4f50..da1b3b3 100644
--- a/templates/CSS.xml
+++ b/templates/CSS.xml
@@ -12,4 +12,9 @@
       <option name="CSS" value="true" />
     </context>
   </template>
+  <template name="bgcv" value="background-color: var(--$END$);" description="Background  colour from var" toReformat="false" toShortenFQNames="true">
+    <context>
+      <option name="CSS" value="true" />
+    </context>
+  </template>
 </templateSet>
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