diff --git a/core/modules/widgets/widget.js b/core/modules/widgets/widget.js
index b73294654..b38397749 100755
--- a/core/modules/widgets/widget.js
+++ b/core/modules/widgets/widget.js
@@ -341,7 +341,11 @@ Widget.prototype.makeFakeWidgetWithVariables = function(variables) {
 		},
 		makeFakeWidgetWithVariables: self.makeFakeWidgetWithVariables,
 		resolveVariableParameters: self.resolveVariableParameters,
-		wiki: self.wiki
+		wiki: self.wiki,
+		variables: variables,
+		getAncestorCount: function() {
+			return 0;
+		}
 	};
 };
 
diff --git a/core/wiki/macros/CSS.tid b/core/wiki/macros/CSS.tid
index 3d7dfcdb2..3702b1ff1 100644
--- a/core/wiki/macros/CSS.tid
+++ b/core/wiki/macros/CSS.tid
@@ -2,16 +2,13 @@ title: $:/core/macros/CSS
 tags: $:/tags/Macro $:/tags/Global
 
 <!-- Needs to stay that way for backwards compatibility. See GH issue: #8326 -->
-\define colour(name)
-\whitespace trim
-<$transclude tiddler={{$:/palette}} index="$name$">
-	<$transclude tiddler="$:/palettes/Vanilla" index="$name$">
-		<$transclude tiddler="$:/config/DefaultColourMappings/$name$"/>
-	</$transclude>
-</$transclude>
-\end
+\function colour(name)
+[{$:/palette}getindex<name>] :else[{$:/palettes/Vanilla}getindex<name>] :else[[$:/config/DefaultColourMappings/]addsuffix<name>get[text]] :and[wikify[text],[inline]]
+\end colour
 
-\define color(name) <<colour $name$>>
+\function color(name)
+[function[colour],<name>]
+\end function
 
 \function box-shadow(shadow)
 [[ -webkit-box-shadow: $(shadow)$;