# How to make the automatic dark theme the same as the selected dark theme?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-the-automatic-dark-theme-the-same-as-the-selected-dark-theme/342331
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** dark-theme, dark-mode-toggle
**Created:** [December 13, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-the-automatic-dark-theme-the-same-as-the-selected-dark-theme/342331 "2024-12-13T18:15:16Z")
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### Author: ![Laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Laurent](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Laurent)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-the-automatic-dark-theme-the-same-as-the-selected-dark-theme/342331/1 "2024-12-13T18:15:16Z")

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We have a dark theme that looks like this:

 ![A screenshot of a forum interface showing categories, tags, unread topics, and options to add a new topic or see replies and activity. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/7/3/4733dcadee730488d823ac729ef9b12e91ea218e.png)

When we select the theme in the user profile, it looks as above, as expected.

However when it is enabled automatically via the profile option “Enable automatic dark mode colour scheme”, then it looks like this:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/d/c/adc1d28e1bb63fad250cf886c008d25ca55f2cf8.png)

It makes most of the UI dark, but it takes the light theme CSS which means the header ends up like this.

Is there any way to make Discourse strictly pick the Dark theme, including CSS, etc. when it is automatically selected?

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For information, these are our Light Theme options:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/a/0/ea041175a894e81662efee334a3232d314f37c9f.png)

And Dark theme options:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/d/2/9d2fe248af16c39ecc503970d11553e6e1041609.png)

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