🎨 CSS Theme Change

Tiny helper for CSS themes.

• One HTML attribute data-set-theme to set theme theme.
• Works with button, select, and checkbox
• Persists theme in localStorage
• Syncs all matching data-set-theme controls

Demo

• CodePen: https://codepen.io/saadeghi/pen/OJypbNM?editors=1000

Quick start

CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/theme-change@latest/index.js"></script>

NPM

npm i theme-change@latest

import { themeChange } from "theme-change";

themeChange();

Use themeChange(false) when controls are mounted after initial page load.

Framework snippets

import { useEffect } from "react";
import { themeChange } from "theme-change";

useEffect(() => {
  themeChange(false);
}, []);

import { onMounted } from "vue";
import { themeChange } from "theme-change";

export default {
  setup() {
    onMounted(() => {
      themeChange(false);
    });
  },
};

import { onMount } from "svelte";
import { themeChange } from "theme-change";

onMount(() => {
  themeChange(false);
});

---
import { themeChange } from "theme-change";
---

<script>
  themeChange(false);
</script>

CSS setup

Use daisyUI themes, or define your own theme tokens:

:root {
  --my-color: #fff;
}
[data-theme="dark"] {
  --my-color: #000;
}
[data-theme="pink"] {
  --my-color: #ffabc8;
}
body {
  background-color: var(--my-color);
}

HTML patterns

| Pattern | Preview | Minimal code | | --- | --- | --- | | Button set | | <button data-set-theme="dark">Dark</button> | | Button rotate | | <button data-set-theme="dark,light,pink">Rotate</button> | | Select | | <select data-set-theme><option value="">Default</option><option value="dark">Dark</option></select> | | Checkbox | | <input type="checkbox" value="dark" data-set-theme /> |

Notes:

• For checkbox: checked sets theme, unchecked clears theme.
• For rotate button: each click moves to the next item and loops.
• Controls with the same data-key stay in sync.

Optional attributes

data-act-class

<button data-set-theme="" data-act-class="ACTIVE"></button>
<button data-set-theme="dark" data-act-class="ACTIVE"></button>
<button data-set-theme="pink" data-act-class="ACTIVE"></button>

data-act-attribute

Like data-act-class, but sets an arbitrary HTML attribute (instead of a class) on a button while its theme is active, and removes it when inactive. Useful for accessibility state such as aria-pressed or aria-current.

<!-- name:value — active: aria-pressed="true", inactive: attribute removed -->
<button data-set-theme="dark" data-act-attribute="aria-pressed:true"></button>

<!-- bare name (no colon) — boolean presence: active: aria-current="", inactive: removed -->
<button data-set-theme="pink" data-act-attribute="aria-current"></button>

Notes:

• Syntax is name[:value]. Only the first colon splits name and value, so the value may itself contain colons (e.g. data-act-attribute="title:Active: dark").
• When inactive the attribute is fully removed (not set to a falsy value).
• Button-only, same as data-act-class — ignored on <select> and checkbox controls.
• Can be combined with data-act-class on the same element.
• Also works with the legacy data-toggle-theme buttons.

data-key

<select data-set-theme data-key="admin-panel"></select>
<button data-set-theme="dark" data-key="front-page"></button>
<input type="checkbox" value="pink" data-set-theme data-key="premium-user-theme" />

Backward compatibility

Legacy v2 attributes still work:

• data-toggle-theme
• data-choose-theme