# Theme Don't change

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [5 January 2023 03:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195 "2023-01-05T03:10:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![allacmc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/allacmc/32/73549_2.png) [@allacmc](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/allacmc)\
**Post date:** [5 January 2023 03:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195/1 "2023-01-05T03:10:12Z")

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Please help me urgently.

Something happened after importing an example from here on the forum.

My whole theme got messed up.

And I can't restore the screen to original mode.

Did I remove all the existing CSS to go back to the original nod-red dark theme (But even that doesn't work)?

Wonder what's going on?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/c/9/c92feb54c28eb3210d423dfd570bec1edc76d400.png)

Even selecting this theme nothing is changed. What could be happening?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/0/9/09aaa4878a8094b0d047ecbe401785bf1e1b8448.png)

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**Author:** ![allacmc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/allacmc/32/73549_2.png) [@allacmc](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/allacmc)\
**Post date:** [5 January 2023 04:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195/2 "2023-01-05T04:19:28Z")

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Just to complement:

I exported my whole theme to another nod-red and it broke the other nod-red as well.

If I reset everything, delete all the flows, it still has this problem of not letting me change the theme.

What will be the problem?

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**Author:** ![allacmc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/allacmc/32/73549_2.png) [@allacmc](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/allacmc)\
**Post date:** [5 January 2023 05:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195/3 "2023-01-05T05:40:00Z")

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after a lot of headbutting.

I found out that node-red has a bug. I needed to press F5 and reload the entire node-red so that it starts working again from scratch.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [5 January 2023 07:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195/4 "2023-01-05T07:41:40Z")

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That isn't a bug, it just means that the browser had cached something and you had to tell the browser to reload everything from node red in order to recover.

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**Author:** ![allacmc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/allacmc/32/73549_2.png) [@allacmc](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/allacmc)\
**Post date:** [5 January 2023 15:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195/5 "2023-01-05T15:16:06Z")

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For me it's a bug.

Do some things work and others not?

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [5 January 2023 17:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195/6 "2023-01-05T17:39:43Z")

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How can something the browser does, without involving node red, be a bug in node red?

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**Author:** ![jbudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)\
**Post date:** [5 January 2023 18:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195/7 "2023-01-05T18:30:18Z")

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[https://geekflare.com/disable-cache-in-browsers/](https://geekflare.com/disable-cache-in-browsers/)

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**Author:** ![kevinGodell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/kevingodell/32/27040_2.png) [@kevinGodell](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kevinGodell)\
**Post date:** [5 January 2023 18:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195/8 "2023-01-05T18:40:35Z")

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I agree with you, but it makes me think of the way node-red pops up a message to let you know to restart the server after updating the pallette sometimes. Maybe a well placed alert can inform a user to do a hard refresh.

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**Author:** ![allacmc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/allacmc/32/73549_2.png) [@allacmc](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/allacmc)\
**Post date:** [5 January 2023 18:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195/9 "2023-01-05T18:54:10Z")

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I know it was pretty confusing...

I really didn't understand why I put elements on the screen and they all worked... I took the elements away and they worked.

however: When I changed the theme it didn't work.

I lost two 2 hours and a lot of work until I found out that I just had to press F5 and update.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [19 January 2023 18:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/theme-dont-change/73195/10 "2023-01-19T18:54:30Z")

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