Not able to turn off/remove dark mode in Create Next App

Question

Previously using create-next-app, I always got a nice light themed 'Welcome to Next.js' application bootstrapped, but today when I initialized a next.js app with create-next-app, the application is using dark mode automatically since it is my system preference. This did not happen before.

I want to remove the dark mode and keep it light themed only without changing my system preference, but I am not able to do that.

This is my package.json:

 {
  "name": "next-app",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "next dev",
    "build": "next build",
    "start": "next start",
    "lint": "next lint"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "next": "12.2.3",
    "react": "18.2.0",
    "react-dom": "18.2.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "eslint": "8.20.0",
    "eslint-config-next": "12.2.3"
  }
}

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '22 at 19:20

in global.css remove:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  html {
    color-scheme: dark;
  }
  body {
    color: white;
    background: black;
  }
}

(prefers-color-scheme) media query reads the color mode from your browser and applies its CSS styles

anchovy · Answer 2 · 2023-02-10T12:52:05.863

4

Dark mode was added in July of 2022 through this PR. In addition to Motasem's answer, I'd also remove the media queries in Home.module.css:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  .card,
  .footer {
    border-color: #222;
  }
  .code {
    background: #111;
  }
  .logo img {
    filter: invert(1);
  }
}

Edit February 2023

Looks like this is now the media query:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  .vercelLogo {
    filter: invert(1);
  }

  .logo,
  .thirteen img {
    filter: invert(1) drop-shadow(0 0 0.3rem #ffffff70);
  }
}

edited Feb 10 '23 at 12:52

answered Aug 24 '22 at 23:50

anchovy

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2

I don't have that in a next 13 build. Was it removed? – Chanoch Feb 09 '23 at 15:12

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 08 '23 at 20:05

Had a similar problem, in nextjs 13, that also applied dark mode to Image. Besides removing the media query:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  .....
 }

I also had to add darkMode: 'class' to tailwind config:

module.exports = {
   darkMode: 'class',
....

Not able to turn off/remove dark mode in Create Next App

3 Answers3

Edit February 2023