I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

Re:I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog by mlysk on Monday March 30, 2026 @11:29AM (#47575574)

My goal is that it renders on GitHub as well as on my blog. GitHub doesn’t support css based dark mode afaik

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Re:I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog by tasuki on Monday March 30, 2026 @03:42PM (#47578789)

Ah, you have a button for the toggle! Did you know that you can conform to the user's light/dark preference with CSS? Like this:

    :root { --varname: #FFE; }
    
    @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
        :root { --varname: #022; }
    }

Edit: To expand on this, I dislike light/dark toggles. If I have dark mode on, seeing a bright screen and having to search for a toggle is jarring. Just show me the colours according to my preference!

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Re:I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog by auraham on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:06PM (#47579708)

How can you detect the system preferences in the browser?

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Re:I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog by tasuki on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:26PM (#47579911)

I answered that in the comment you're replying to. If you want a more authoritative answer: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...

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Re:I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog by pinjasaur on Monday March 30, 2026 @06:06PM (#47580310)

Last I checked on this the workaround is embedding CSS inside an SVG, here's a demo: https://github.com/sindresorhus/css-in-readme-like-wat

I used this on a personal project to add a README logo that is dark mode friendly: https://paul.af/github-readme-dark-mode

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