← All examples

Action Look & feel news.ycombinator.com

Hacker News: toggle dark mode

Switches a quick dark theme on or off with a single click whenever you want to change the page brightness.

Code to copy

// Toggle a quick dark theme on and off with one click
const ID = 'jz-hn-dark-toggle';
const old = document.getElementById(ID);
if (old) { old.remove(); }
else {
  const s = document.createElement('style');
  s.id = ID;
  s.textContent =
    'html,body{background:#1a1a1a!important;color:#c8c8c8!important}' +
    '#hnmain{background:#1f1f1f!important}' +
    'td,.comment,.commtext,.toptext{color:#c8c8c8!important}' +
    '.subtext,.comhead,.subtext a,.comhead a,.rank{color:#8a8a8a!important}' +
    'a:link,a:visited{color:#b9bfc6!important}' +
    '.commtext a:link{color:#6ea8fe!important}';
  document.head.appendChild(s);
}

How to use this example

  1. Copy the code with the button above.
  2. Install JustZix (2 minutes) and open the extension on the target page.
  3. Add a new rule matching that page.
  4. Enable the action panel, add a button in the Actions tab and paste the code into it — run it with one click.

Rate this example

No ratings yet — be the first.

Does this example work?

Snippets are useless without somewhere to paste them.

JustZix takes 2 minutes to install and runs your code on every matching page. No account, no payment.

Download free See use cases