Dark Theme For Forum

Eagle928 · Feb 13, 2023

I didn't see any place else to ask a forum setting question. Is there a way to set the theme on the forum to dark? All the white is off-putting.

herein2021 · Feb 14, 2023

Eagle928 said:
I didn't see any place else to ask a forum setting question. Is there a way to set the theme on the forum to dark? All the white is off-putting.

That's a great suggestion, I have all of my devices set to a dark theme, it would be nice if that were an option for this forum.

ccadden · Feb 17, 2023

Add me to the petition

GFields · Feb 18, 2023

Isn't "dark mode" an option in almost all browsers? I'm a website designer as well as an FAA-licensed drone pilot and have never known this to be an option in individual websites/forums. This is a browser option.

Microsoft Edge

Google Chrome

FireFox

This can be accomplished by going into your settings/appearance

Google Chrome does offer a per-site option for those who might want some variety.
I will check with the forum owner to see if I am mistaken on this issue.

herein2021 · Feb 18, 2023

GFields said:
Isn't "dark mode" an option in almost all browsers? I'm a website designer as well as an FAA-licensed drone pilot and have never known this to be an option in individual websites/forums. This is a browser option.

Microsoft Edge
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Google Chrome

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FireFox

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This can be accomplished by going into your settings/appearance

Google Chrome does offer a per-site option for those who might want some variety.
I will check with the forum owner to see if I am mistaken on this issue.

Yes it is a browser option but it only applies to the browser window. To enable website dark mode on a website that does not perform dark mode browser detection or a dark mode theme/CSS template you have to get a plugin, flip some experimental flags in Chrome, or perform some other type of workaround which may or may not achieve the look you want.

When dark mode first started getting popular, websites started adding CSS templates that would switch the entire site to dark mode after the user logged in and set their preferences to dark mode. To see this in action go to Google, click the "Settings" option in the lower right corner, and select "Dark Theme: On". This is an example of manually turning off and on a website's Dark Mode.

These days web browsers advertise their mode in a way that is easily detectable using CSS and JS. Once dark mode is detected, the website can then apply different style sheets to change the actual website to dark mode vs. just the browser window edges. YouTube does this pretty elegantly. If you go to YouTube and your browser is configured to use Dark Mode all of YouTube is also dark mode. If you switch your browser to Light Mode and hit Refresh the website changes to Light Mode.

So what we are saying is that it would be great if this Autel forum could mimic that behavior. It would require a few CSS changes but then the website could match user's browser preferences.

GFields · Feb 19, 2023

herein2021 said:
Yes it is a browser option but it only applies to the browser window. To enable website dark mode on a website that does not perform dark mode browser detection or a dark mode theme/CSS template you have to get a plugin, flip some experimental flags in Chrome, or perform some other type of workaround which may or may not achieve the look you want.

When dark mode first started getting popular, websites started adding CSS templates that would switch the entire site to dark mode after the user logged in and set their preferences to dark mode. To see this in action go to Google, click the "Settings" option in the lower right corner, and select "Dark Theme: On". This is an example of manually turning off and on a website's Dark Mode.

These days web browsers advertise their mode in a way that is easily detectable using CSS and JS. Once dark mode is detected, the website can then apply different style sheets to change the actual website to dark mode vs. just the browser window edges. YouTube does this pretty elegantly. If you go to YouTube and your browser is configured to use Dark Mode all of YouTube is also dark mode. If you switch your browser to Light Mode and hit Refresh the website changes to Light Mode.

So what we are saying is that it would be great if this Autel forum could mimic that behavior. It would require a few CSS changes but then the website could match user's browser preferences.