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Joe Attardi
Joe Attardi

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Quick tip: Automatically detect Dark Mode with CSS!

Just a quick tip I discovered recently.

You probably already know that macOS and iOS (and perhaps others) support dark mode. What you might not know is that you can detect this with a CSS media query!

Just use this media query:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  // rules in here will only be applied if the user's OS is in dark mode!
}
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Hope this helps you develop better UIs!

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