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Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with

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451 points todsacerdoti | 3 comments | 28 Aug 25 20:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.53s | source
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sbinnee ◴[29 Aug 25 05:01 UTC] No.45060391[source]▶
I always knew that there should be a way to have a button to change light and dark mode on my website without javascript. But I couldn’t figure it out (pre llm era) and gave up and just used javascript. Now it’s time to make an update on that. This blog motivated me.
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1. Sateeshm ◴[29 Aug 25 05:04 UTC] No.45060405[source]▶
Isn't it just `prefers-color-scheme`
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2. rebane2001 ◴[29 Aug 25 05:08 UTC] No.45060432[source]▶
that's the "auto" option, but the comment is taking about adding buttons to switch between the themes too
3. wjrb ◴[29 Aug 25 18:13 UTC] No.45067543[source]▶
That would be the media query; sort of a long-hand way. I learned about the color function for settings the vars from the article, never saw those in use before.