AngularJS style switcher

It's often the case that you want to provide more than one CSS stylesheet for your app or website. You can do this by including a style switching function in your app. Here's how to do it in AngularJS.



In the HTML, create a button for each stylesheet that you want to switch between, and pass in the filename of the stylesheet as a variable:
<button ng-click="changeStyle('colors.css')" id="pink">Brookes Pink</button><br />
<button ng-click="changeStyle('colors-lime.css')" id="lime">Brookes Lime</button><br />
<button ng-click="changeStyle('colors-muted.css')" id="muted">Muted colours</button><br />
<button ng-click="changeStyle('colors-dark.css')" id="dark">Dark colours</button>
You will also need to put the ng-app attribute in the <html> element, and an angular variable in the path to the stylesheet:
<html ng-app="myApp">

<head>

<link rel="stylesheet" data-ng-href="css/{{ filename }}" />
In the Angular (app.js), create a settings controller with a changeStyle function. Note that the stylesheet variable is a rootscope variable because the variable we are changing is in the <head>, outside of any block governed by a controller.
 .controller('settingsCtrl',
['$rootScope', '$scope', '$uibModal', '$routeParams', '$log', '$timeout', '$http',
    function ($rootScope, $scope, $uibModal, $routeParams, $log, $timeout, $http) {
        $scope.settings = [];
        $rootScope.filename = $.jStorage.get('myStyle', '') || 'colors';
        $scope.changeStyle = function (stylesheet) {
            $rootScope.filename = stylesheet;
            $.jStorage.set('myStyle', stylesheet, { TTL: 28800000 });
        };
    }])
I have used jStorage to store the user's preference for a stylesheet, but you could also use cookies.

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