Inconsistent theme?

[nicholaelaw]

Hi there, I'm building a website with rmarkdown, with a few pages built using flexdashboard. In my tinkering, I find it odd that while vanilla rmarkdown::html_document uses navbar-default class for the navbar, flexdashboard uses navbar-inverse instead.

Is there a practical reason for this, or is it just a design choice? If it is a design choice, is there a way to force flexdashboard to use navbar-default, or html_document to use navbar-inverse? I want a unified look for my website, and I really don't want to write more whacky CSS overrides.

[jjallaire]

Yes, it's a design choice based on the notion that navbar-inverse looks better for dashboards. For rmarkdown you can change to inverse this way:

name: "my-website"
navbar:
  title: "My Website"
  type: inverse

For flexdashboard you'd need a JS chunk that does this:

```js
$('.navbar-inverse').removeClass('navbar-inverse').addClass('navbar-default');
```

[nicholaelaw]

Hmm, thanks. I noticed that none of the themes offered is dark. Perhaps one of the reasons to use inverse themes is to prevent usually bright graphs on dark background?

[jjallaire]

Yeah we haven't supported dark themes b/c they tend to have too much contrast with plots/widgets that have white backgrounds.

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Hmm, thanks. I noticed that none of the themes offered is dark. Perhaps one of the reasons to use inverse themes is to prevent usually bright graphs on dark background?

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