Why does the blank page on every web browsers stays white even on dark mode?

Question

In some browsers, it’s the `about:blank` page. Tried googling around, but the answers are all too technical for a non tech person to understand, let alone a five years old

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Answer 1

There isn’t really a reason, other than that “this is what the browser has been written to do”

There’s no particular rule about how browsers must treat blank pages, but a reasonable thing to do is just to render it as a normal page with no content, applying whatever default styles the browser has.

And most browsers have apparently been made to use default styles that render the page white. It’s not something that’s really guided by a standard or specification, so browsers can do what they want.

But if they render the page white in dark mode it is probably more an oversight than anything. File a bug report and see if they’ll fix it.

Answer 2

There isn’t really a reason, other than that “this is what the browser has been written to do”

There’s no particular rule about how browsers must treat blank pages, but a reasonable thing to do is just to render it as a normal page with no content, applying whatever default styles the browser has.

And most browsers have apparently been made to use default styles that render the page white. It’s not something that’s really guided by a standard or specification, so browsers can do what they want.

But if they render the page white in dark mode it is probably more an oversight than anything. File a bug report and see if they’ll fix it.