Sara Soueidan • 10/3/2021

The CSS prefers-color-scheme user query and order of preference

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This technical article investigates the behavior of the CSS prefers-color-scheme media query, demonstrating through testing that it can pick up an application's internal theme setting (like a dark mode in a reader app) over the operating system's global theme preference. It references the specification to explain this intended behavior.

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