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meta:
  title: "Styling and customization"
  parentTitle: "Notifications"
  description: "CSS variables, dark mode, and more"
---

Styling Notifications
[default components](/docs/ready-made-features/notifications/default-components)
is enabled through a range of means, such as CSS variables, class names, and
more.

## Default components

To add the default components’ theme, import the
[default styles](/docs/api-reference/liveblocks-react-ui#Default-styles) CSS
file.

```ts
import "@liveblocks/react-ui/styles.css";
```

You can also import one of two CSS files to enable
[dark mode](/docs/api-reference/liveblocks-react-ui#Dark-mode), depending on how
you’d like to enable it.

```ts
// Dark mode using the system theme with `prefers-color-scheme`
import "@liveblocks/react-ui/styles/dark/media-query.css";
```

```ts
// Dark mode using `className="dark"`, `data-theme="dark"`, or `data-dark="true"`
import "@liveblocks/react-ui/styles/dark/attributes.css";
```

### CSS variables

A number of
[CSS variables](/docs/api-reference/liveblocks-react-ui#CSS-variables) can be
used to customize colors, spacing, and more. This is our recommended path for
styling the default components, as you can quickly and easily modify all
components with just a few variables.

```css
/* Styles all default components */
.lb-root {
  --lb-accent: purple;
  --lb-spacing: 1em;
  --lb-radius: 0;
}
```

### Class names

Should you need deeper customization,
[class names](/docs/api-reference/liveblocks-react-ui#Class-names) can be
styled, some of which provide contextual data attributes.

```css
.lb-notification {
  /* Customize notification */
}

.lb-avatar[data-loading] {
  /* Customize avatar loading state */
}
```

---

For an overview of all available documentation, see [/llms.txt](/llms.txt).