The theme switcher is a customized select element with a small script to control your theme modes.

Technical Details

  • The script switches the data-theme-mode attribute on the html (and theme switcher) element to identify the selected theme.
  • You have to set up an additional color theme.

Theme Detection

The JS code above only handles the switch and its states. You also have to detect a default or chosen theme. For this, you can use matchMedia with prefers-color-scheme: dark;. You MUST embed this script inline in your header as far ahead as possible.

javascript
(() => {
  const systemMode = window.matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)').matches ? 'dark' : 'light';
  const preferredTheme = localStorage.getItem('preferred-theme');


  function setTheme(theme) {
    document.documentElement.setAttribute('data-theme-mode', theme === 'system' ? systemMode : theme);
  }


  window
    .matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)')
    .addEventListener('change', (e) => {
      if (localStorage.getItem('preferred-theme') === 'system' || localStorage.getItem('preferred-theme') === null) {
        setTheme(e.matches ? 'dark' : 'light');
      }
    });


  setTheme(preferredTheme || systemMode);
})();

Resources

  • Icons: 1, 2, 3