Dark mode switch doesn’t do anything

Using Themes
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Describe the bug

Dark mode switch doesn’t do anything and is stuck on old mode (no dropdown menu)

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Go to nriaziat.netlify.com Click on the theme toggle See error Expected behavior

Dropdown menu should appear and give theme mode options. At the very least, mode should switch on click.

Technical details:

Academic Version: 4.9 (dont know how to check) Hugo Version: 0.68.3 Browser/OS: Chrome on Windows 10

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Hi Nzriaziat, welcome to the forum! :wave:

The theme toggle neither works on my end. If I click on it, an error message appears in the browser’s console window:

jquery.min.js:2 Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [name=]
    at Function.se.error (jquery.min.js:2)
    at se.tokenize (jquery.min.js:2)
    at se.select (jquery.min.js:2)
    at Function.se [as find] (jquery.min.js:2)
    at k.fn.init.find (jquery.min.js:2)
    at new k.fn.init (jquery.min.js:2)
    at k (jquery.min.js:2)
    at HTMLAnchorElement.<anonymous> (academia.min.281fa180ccfa1769ea3c7dd430814861.js:11)
    at HTMLAnchorElement.dispatch (jquery.min.js:2)
    at HTMLAnchorElement.v.handle (jquery.min.js:2)

I don’t know how to fix this error since it looks to be caused by your theme. Or if it’s not caused by the Academic theme, then it’s a JavaScript programming error. Either way it’s not something Hugo did.

But perhaps there are Hugo users that also use your specific theme and can help more. :slightly_smiling_face:

Edit: Since the creator of the theme pointed you in the GitHub issue to this forum, you might have expected more help from here. And I fully get that. But most of us here on the forum don’t use the Academic theme.

I just wanted to clarify that just in case you and other readers otherwise get a bad impression. :slight_smile: