disable dark mode in django admin

Question

The Problem

I installed Django after couple of months. Current version is 3.2.4.

Earlier Django-admin was just light-mode. Current Django-admin switches automatically to dark or light according to system theme. Well, I do not want this behaviour. I want Django-admin to be light theme irrespective of system theme. I am Not using 3rd party theme for Django-admin.

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What I Tried?

As per one of the comment in this answer,

I decided to comment "@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)" section in /static/admin/css/base.css . Not sure that it's good solution but the fastest one.

I tried commenting the code as shown here but does not work. I tried clearing cache and even tried switching browser but none of them seems to work. In browsers, I always prefer light theme. How can I achieve this? Any help is appreciable. Thanks in advance :)

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System Details:

OS: Fedora 5.11.12-300.fc34.x86_64

Python-Verion: 3.9.5

Answer 1

Unfortunately at the moment there is no feature toggle for disabling this behavior (django 3.2). in order only to have the light theme, you should delete the entire block of @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) code from django/contrib/admin/static/admin/css/base.css file. or you can disable prefers-color-scheme: dark from your browser rendering options. instructions for chrome are described in here

Answer 2

The accepted answer only fixes it for the current user. A solution that would fix it for all users of the site would be similar, but would require copying base.css to your static/css directory and editing it there.

Alternatively (and this is what I did), just pip install django-light and add it to your INSTALLED_APPS just before django.contrib.admin