Dark/night Mode to ignore or add Less CSS on admin Dashboard

[DownPW]

Hi @all

Firstly, I'm a a beginner on Nodebb.

I use persona theme with default skin. I blocked the ability to change the skin to users on admin Dashboad.

I use a personalised css style on admin dashboard for default person skin :

I would like to add a dark/night mode who activate with a button/icon added at the top right next to the search for example.

I have find nodebb-plugin-night-mode by @psychobunny on github which corresponds to what I want:
https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-night-mode

But the only problem is that my custom CSS (on admin Dashboard) is always taken into account when I use dark mode.

Is there a possibility to force dark mode by ignoring it (Custom CSS admin Dashboard)? Or force another CSS style (dark) instead?

Sorry for my bad english.

Please pay attention to my request.

[DownPW]

Anyone have an idea?

[PitaJ]

There should be a class added to the body element .night-mode or something when it's enabled. You can put that before all of your CSS styles you want to apply only in night mode. Or you can use :not(.dark-mode) when you don't want it to apply.

[DownPW]

@pitaj

Thanks for your reply.

To understand well:

the directives that you give me are to be put in the CSS of the dashboard admin ?
or to modify on the file plugin?

Example: If I don't want this on Darkmode :

.categories>li, .category>ul>li{
    border: 1px solid #ffffff;
    border-radius: 5px;
    margin-top: 5px;
    background: #F5F5F5;
}

.topic .posts>li{
   border: 1px solid #ffffff;
   border-radius: 5px;
   margin-top: 7px;
   background: #F5F5F5;
   box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #ddd; 
}

i wrote this:

:not(.dark-mode)
 .categories>li, .category>ul>li{
     border: 1px solid #ffffff;
     border-radius: 5px;
     margin-top: 5px;
     background: #F5F5F5;
}

:not(.dark-mode)
 .topic .posts>li{
    border: 1px solid #ffffff;
    border-radius: 5px;
    margin-top: 7px;
    background: #F5F5F5;
    box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #ddd; 
 }

[DownPW]

@pitaj @psychobunny

Doesn't Work. have you an example of synthax please?

[DownPW]

I was found with body.lights-out directive on code of the plugin and it's work

Example:

body.lights-out {
 .categories>li, .category>ul>li{
     border: 1px solid #33FFA3;
     border-radius: 5px;
     margin-top: 5px;
     /*background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #191919;*/
     background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #191919;
    }
    
    
    .recent-cards .recent-card-container .recent-card {
    height: 200px;
    width: 100%;
    padding: 10px;
    position: relative;
    border: 1px solid #33FFA3;
    background-color: #191919;
    border-radius: 5px;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}
}
```

[dunlix]

when you want to edit css without dark mode, edit it normally.
to edit stuff with dark mode, use

body.lights-out a {
YOURCSS
}

That is to edit the class "a"

the body.lights-out is the dark mode class for everything in that plugin you mentioned.

[DownPW]

@dunlix

body.lights-out a {
YOURCSS
}

doesn't work

just :

body.lights-out  {
YOURCSS
}

Work

How can I change with a wallpaper background?
My usual CSS code doesnt work this this synthax

[DownPW]

It's ok for me

[dunlix]

@downpw I meant for you to replace the YOURCSS