# 4.2.11 Admin dark theme flash/flicker

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**Category:** The Admin\
**Created:** [April 5, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/4-2-11-admin-dark-theme-flash-flicker/29880 "2024-04-05T16:50:34Z")\
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With MacOS set to dark mode, but the Django theme preference set to light, there is a flash of the dark theme on every page load in the admin.

I found discussion of this issue here:

> <https://github.com/django/django/pull/17625>
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> \[ticket 34670\](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34670)
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> Currently, the th…eme is switched after the load event and, by that point, the light theme as already being loaded (and rendered).
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> By removing \[\`defer\`\](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/script#defer) from the script tag and moving the \`initTheme()\` call outside the load event, the theme is applied as soon as the script is loaded.
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> The theme script will still wait that the DOM is loaded before adding the listener to the toggle button.

A closed ticket here:  
[https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34670](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34670)

Per the discussion there it appears the fix is only being applied to 5.1.

Shouldn’t this fix be applied to 4.2 LTS?