I am using the following javascript code to switch between dark mode and light mode through CSS themes and it works perfectly, but when I add the local.storage, the browser does not save the mode preferences. How can I do it?
HTML:
<button id="darkmode" type="button" onclick="toggleDark()">
<span id="night" class="material-icons">mode_night </span>
<span id="light" class="material-icons">light_mode</span>
</button>
CSS:
[data-theme="light"] {
--main-color: #dfdad8;
--sec-color: #202527;
--third-color: #6e6e65;
--one--color: #acf2be4d;
--two--color: #fdb8c052;
}
[data-theme="dark"] {
--main-color: #6e6e65;
--sec-color: #f5f5f5;
--third-color: #202527;
--one--color: #acf2bd;
--two--color: #fdb8c0;
}
Javascript:
function toggleDark() {
const container = document.body;
const dataTheme = container.getAttribute("data-theme");
let theme = localStorage.getItem("data-theme");
if (dataTheme === "light") {
container.setAttribute("data-theme", "dark");
document.getElementById("night").style.display = "block";
document.getElementById("light").style.display = "none";
localStorage.toggled("data-theme", "dark");
} else {
container.setAttribute("data-theme", "light");
document.getElementById("night").style.display = "none";
document.getElementById("light").style.display = "block";
localStorage.setItem("data-theme", "light");
}
}
Two issues:
localStorage.toggled
is not a thing.const container = document.body;
if(localStorage.getItem("data-theme")){
container.setAttribute("data-theme",localStorage.getItem("data-theme"));
toggleDark(1)
}
//actually use the saved value
function toggleDark(r) {//this function is executed when switching from the current theme to the other
const dataTheme = container.getAttribute("data-theme");
let theme_switch;
if(dataTheme === "light") {theme_switch = 1} else {theme_switch = 0}
if(r){theme_switch = !theme_switch}//so the oppisite of the theme stored is used when calling this function
if (theme_switch) {
container.setAttribute("data-theme", "dark");
document.getElementById("night").style.display = "block";
document.getElementById("light").style.display = "none";
localStorage.setItem("data-theme", "dark");
} else {
container.setAttribute("data-theme", "light");
document.getElementById("night").style.display = "none";
document.getElementById("light").style.display = "block";
localStorage.setItem("data-theme", "light");
}
}
If the above code does not work then try the following steps.
localStorage.setItem("data-theme", "dark");
.localStorage.getItem("data-theme")
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