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Dark color scheme for the site

CSS with prefers-color-scheme on the design's classes; no template or layout change.

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Address: https://doc.exponential.earth/exphelp/viewer/help/build-two-ways/examples/redesign/dark-mode-site.md

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Dark color scheme for the site

The site follows the visitor's dark setting.

Life cycle: Redesign, example 31 of 34. Worked out on the Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.

Contents

  1. In the Layouts editor
  2. With templates
  3. Which to choose
  4. Check

In the Layouts editor

No layout change; check every background color editors can choose.

With templates

  1. Add @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { ... } rules to your stylesheet for the page background, text and the bg-color-* classes.

Which to choose

CSS.

Check

  • Text contrast at least 4.5:1 in both schemes.

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