Elements without backgrounds always use checkers, even when stretched

Ideas and Feedback
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Usually an element with no background will use the regular checkerboard pattern by default:

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This is great, but if the element is set to stretch and takes up its artboard, it instead uses whatever color the browser is using:

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Here I am using dark mode, so my element uses a black background. This gets a bit annoying when I’m trying to design for light mode, because I have to change my browser’s color mode to get realistic results. Even if an element shows black like this, when it’s actually rendered it’ll default to white.

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If it’s not checkered, it means the app will be filling in a color, in this case your white/black background based on your system theme. So I think this part is working as expected.

We should get to dark mode support this year, and hopefully that will resolve this concern in the future! https://forum.plasmic.app/t/can-plasmic-studio-support-dark-mode

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I’m a bit confused. When you say “dark mode support,” do you mean we’ll be able to preview light mode and dark mode versions of the designs? Or is it more like the UI Plasmic Studio uses will have dark mode compatibility? The former would resolve the issue, but the latter would leave it the same– you’d still have to change your browser’s color mode to preview what it would look like to the users.

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The former. You’ll be able to natively design for light/dark mode in Plasmic.

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