'Save' what light/dark mode was last active on a static html website

user1406440
June 10, 2024
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I have a simple toggle on my website, which when clicked adds/removes a class of .dark-mode on the html tag. Allows the colours of the page to invert.

The website is a simple, static website as that’s all it needs to be right now.

My question is, is it possible for the last mode to be ‘saved’ so if I user returns the browser remembers and displays that mode by default?

If so, I’m not sure what the method would be for this – so apologies for the terminology (or lack of it)!

const html = document.querySelector('html');
const button = document.querySelector('.contrast-toggle');

button.addEventListener('click', e => {
  e.preventDefault();
  html.classList.toggle('dark-mode');
});

html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  width: 100%;
}

body {
  background: white;
  color: black;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;
}

a,
a:visited,
a:focus,
a:hover,
a:active {
  color: black;
  text-decoration: none;
}

html.dark-mode body {
  background: black;
  color: white;
}

html.dark-mode a,
html.dark-mode a:visited,
html.dark-mode a:focus,
html.dark-mode a:hover,
html.dark-mode a:active {
  color: white;
}

<html>

<body>
  <p><a href="#" class="contrast-toggle">Click to Toggle</a></p>
</body>

</html>

Answers

- Petros
- June 10, 2024 at 4:01 pm
- 0 votes
0
One way of doing that is storing the theme mode in your sessionStorage.
```
    const html = document.querySelector('html');
    const button = document.querySelector('.contrast-toggle');
    const initTheme = sessionStorage.getItem('dark-mode');

    if (initTheme === 'true') {
        html.classList.add('dark-mode');
    }

    button.addEventListener('click', e => {
        e.preventDefault();
        html.classList.toggle('dark-mode');

        sessionStorage.setItem('dark-mode', html.classList.contains('dark-mode'));
    });
```
*If the browser’s sessionStorage though gets cleared, this won’t be maintained. A more permanent solution would be to have an API that stores the value in a DB per user (something like userPreferences)
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