# Category Background images retain after being deleted
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images-retain-after-being-deleted/40377
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [1 במרץ, 2016, 9:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images-retain-after-being-deleted/40377 "2016-03-01T09:08:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)
#### Post date: [1 במרץ, 2016, 9:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images-retain-after-being-deleted/40377/1 "2016-03-01T09:08:53Z")
How to Repo
1. Insert a category background image (possibile more than 1000px in size)
2. Save.
3. Ctrl + F5
4. Go to the category you added the image and delete it, Click Save. Ctrl + F5 . The background image is still there!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1 במרץ, 2016, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images-retain-after-being-deleted/40377/2 "2016-03-01T11:03:07Z")
Can you repro this @techapj?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [1 במרץ, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images-retain-after-being-deleted/40377/3 "2016-03-01T12:33:30Z")
I had to do “hard refresh” to clear category background image (after deleting category image).. Looking more into it.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [1 במרץ, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images-retain-after-being-deleted/40377/4 "2016-03-01T15:28:10Z")
I sent a PR to fix this issue:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4052](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4052)
I will let @zogstrip review the PR since he is familiar with this code. 🙂
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [1 במרץ, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images-retain-after-being-deleted/40377/5 "2016-03-01T15:39:32Z")
Hmm, I actually can’t reproduce this issue. I just tried on try and it worked just fine.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [1 במרץ, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images-retain-after-being-deleted/40377/6 "2016-03-01T16:01:28Z")
Yes, I am not able to repro this on try too. But I can repro this consistently on my local dev instance.. 😕
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [1 במרץ, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images-retain-after-being-deleted/40377/7 "2016-03-01T16:24:47Z")
Weird, I can’t even repro this on a regular DO hosted instance.
@Alankrit_Choudh on which instance are you getting this issue? And are you able to repro this consistently?
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### Author:  [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)
#### Post date: [1 במרץ, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images-retain-after-being-deleted/40377/8 "2016-03-01T17:49:37Z")
Well, it lasted for a while, is it possible that this could be happening via Cache from Cloudflare? Happened only once as of now. After that didn’t take the risk of following it on a live production.
I have my instance on DO - [https://animeforums.me](https://animeforums.me)
Edit i removed the backgrounds from the category. After that, i have not attempted this repro.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1 במרץ, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images-retain-after-being-deleted/40377/9 "2016-03-01T19:06:16Z")