I saw Jeremy Keith's post about adding dark mode to his blog and it seemed simple, so I decided to give it a whirl.
Here is the diff of the work for all to see. It was surprisingly easy (outside of silly errors on my part). There was a small refactor to support CSS variables and ensuring I have fallback if there's a browser that doesn't support CSS custom properties, but that is about it. I did pretty much the same thing that Jeremy did.
There was no DevTools support in Chrome that let me emulate dark-mode being set (I hear it's coming), so I created a simple CSS class that I could add to my HTML element to quickly test it working (as seen below).
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
html {
--background-color: rgb(36, 36, 36);
--text-color: #fefefe;
--block-quote-before-color: #333;
--link-color-visited: #7ad857;
--post-shadow: #333;
}
.post.moi a[rel=me] img {
filter: invert(0.8);
}
}
html.dark {
--background-color: rgb(36, 36, 36);
--text-color: #fefefe;
--block-quote-before-color: #333;
--link-color: #1bcba2;
--link-color-visited: #7ad857;
--post-shadow: #333;
}
html.dark .post.moi a[rel=me] img {
filter: invert(0.8);
}
Not dark-mode
dark-mode
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