# Alternatives to lock icon for categories

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternatives-to-lock-icon-for-categories/24815
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [2월 4, 2015, 7:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternatives-to-lock-icon-for-categories/24815 "2015-02-04T19:45:45Z")
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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2월 7, 2015, 3:48오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternatives-to-lock-icon-for-categories/24815/53 "2015-02-07T03:48:05Z")

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You can do all that with CSS too 😄 It may be ~4 lines but definitely do able. Plus since you can enable multiple styles now, you can simply have one for category alterations and keep it enabled 😉

My point was, no one is really customizing this icon today. So we’re bikeshedding here. “It would be great if we use X or Y or Z” without actually seeing people using it.

I simply showed how easy it is to customize the icon. The background image is a bit harder, but by a smudge (I haven’t tested this, but it should be relatively close).

```plaintext
.badge-category i.fa.fa-lock:before { content: ""; } /* remove the existing icon */
.badge-category i.fa { background-image: url('...'); background-repeat: norepeat; padding: 6px 6px 6px 6px; } /* assuming 12x12 icon */

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