# Category Icons

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683>\
**Category:** Theme component\
**Tags:** official, deprecated, category-icons\
**Created:** [December 19, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683 "2018-12-19T16:22:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![kontratak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kontratak/32/343517_2.png) [@kontratak](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kontratak)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683/3 "2019-01-17T00:35:32Z")

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This component has had an impact on our forum in an artistic way. I like it.

However there is a problem with category names. I created a category with the name of “Doğa Bilimleri”, but later changed its name to “Bilim” and created a sub-category with the name of “Doğa Bilimleri”.

Before:  
 ![Before](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/b/6b92709505d7f265a9a45302dc233e8b78d837e6.png)

After:

 ![After](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/e/4e4cdc4d5a3c3549db912a768a858f1d6760ce72.png)

I only assigned an icon for the category of “Doğa Bilimleri”, not for “Bilim”.

![doga-bilimleri-flask](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/2/82e1c1e9af01f046f7299e23406c6594f80e0360.png)

But the flask icon has been assigned for both “Bilim” and its sub-category “Doğa Bilimleri”.

![Flask-assigned-for-both](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/6/c691be381009b1167c57199bd41a4eda565d3a6f.png)

I cannot also assign an icon to a category whose name I change if I use the new name of it, yet the old name always works. (I solved this one: This is all about “category slug”. If you leave the category slug with the old name, you will experience same pseudo-problem.)

**Edit:** I figured out why the flask icon is assigned for the main category. It is because both the main category and the sub-category include same word “Bilim”. Even if I give a random name like “abcdefbilimghjk” in the category icon list, it will still assign the icon I choose to the category “Bilim”, since the random name includes the word “bilim”.

![abcdefbilimghjk](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/0/3015a55a586c948ee439eae72975c395235f0d6a.png)

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