Category badges on listing pages distracting for some users

[matt_k_bcn]

We’ve had feedback from our community, which is using the Horizon theme, to say that the category badges within posts on topic listing pages are distracting.

They are saying that the secondary/supplementary content (category name) is drawing attention away from the primary content (post title) and I can see where they are coming from.

Example of what I mean pulled from the latest topic listing on this forum:

It’s something we can manage on our community with styling overrides - we’re looking at removing the background colour and applying it as a border instead - so no huge concerns but I just thought I’d share in case this sort of feedback is useful!

[Lilly (Lillian)]

hi @matt_k_bcn welcome!

you can do this with css in a theme component:

.hc-topic-card__category .badge-category__wrapper {
    border: solid .5px!important;
    border-color: var(--category-badge-color)!important;
    --category-badge-color: none!important;
}