Media Queries: prefers-color-scheme feature

Category: CSS
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 76)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

Summary

Adds the 'prefers-color-scheme' feature, which lets authors adapt web content to user-selected dark theme in the OS or browser. Valid options are 'light', 'dark', or 'no-preference'.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-5/#prefers-color-scheme
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping — Shipped in Firefox 67
Safari: Shipped/Shipping — Shipped in Safari 12.1
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=889087

Samples: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme#Examples

Explainers: N/A

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