A simple mistake that can screw up your light/dark theme (and how to fix it)
Channel: Kevin Powell
Date: 2024-02-27

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✅ Finished example: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/KKEevOp
✅ More in-depth video on creating a light/dark toggle: https://youtu.be/QtuLN0lNb-Y

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:12 - Following system preferences for color-scheme
00:30 - emulating light and dark modes
01:10 - using preferes-color-scheme
02:00 - Letting a user change the color scheme can cause a problem
03:33 - The solution to this problem

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