# Changing How Categories are Displayed

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-how-categories-are-displayed/116095
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [April 26, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-how-categories-are-displayed/116095 "2019-04-26T21:37:13Z")
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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-how-categories-are-displayed/116095/2 "2019-04-26T22:55:57Z")

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This has been asked previously here:

> [@Can it be done with CSS? Grouping categories on category page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-it-be-done-with-css-grouping-categories-on-category-page/112433):
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> What I’d like to do (as I know there’s no baked in setting or feature set) is use CSS to group categories on the home page. I’m not looking to nest categories, but just group some together and possibly put a header on them. I know the individual categories can be “separated” with padding, and I know each category can be targeted by category ID or category name. So what I’m hoping is to be able to replicate something that looks like this: [image] I realize for simplicity, the categories would …

The consensus is that it’s not a straightforward thing to implement:

> [@Can it be done with CSS? Grouping categories on category page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-it-be-done-with-css-grouping-categories-on-category-page/112433/3):
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> This kind of stuff is possible in a theme component but extremely complicated. I think you would need to override templates which makes this also pretty fragile.

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