Can you help unblock dark mode on Stack Overflow? 🌒

Overriding :root CSS variables from inner scopes

Oct 2 '19 Comments: 6 Answers: 3

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In our design system at Stack Overflow, we use Less to compile CSS color values.

We have global Less variables like @orange-500 that are frequently modified for hover states, building border styling, background colors, etc.

In Less, this is written as darken(@orange-500, 5%). I'm trying to achieve something similar…

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