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Dark Mode in CSS Guide

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2024-11-27 12:00:05

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Dark mode has gained a lot of traction recently. Like Apple, for instance, has added dark mode to its iOS and MacOS operating systems. Windows and Google have done the same. 

Let’s get into dark mode in the context of websites. We’ll delve into different options and approaches to implementing a dark mode design and the technical considerations they entail. We’ll also touch upon some design tips along the way.

The typical scenario is that you already have a light theme for your site, and you’re interested in making a darker counterpart. Or, even if you’re starting from scratch, you’ll have both themes: light and dark. One theme should be defined as the default that users get on first visit, which is the light theme in most cases (though we can let the user’s browser make that choice for us, as we’ll see). There also should be a way to switch to the other theme (which can be done automatically, as we’ll also see) — as in, the user clicks a button and the color theme changes.

The general idea of this approach is to style things up as we normally would, call that our “default” mode, then create a complete set of color styles using a class set on the <body>  element we can use as a “dark” mode.

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