# Custom CSS/HTML in non-default theme (without component)
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**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** css\
**Created:** [February 26, 2023, 1:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-css-html-in-non-default-theme-without-component/256301 "2023-02-26T13:28:14Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-css-html-in-non-default-theme-without-component/256301/17 "2023-02-26T16:34:41Z")
Hey Bastiaan 🙂
> [@bquast](#):
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> However, I want to see what my community members think, but I use the theme `zeronoise`, which does not have the `Edit CSS` setting.
>
> My question now is, wouldn’t it be useful if Discourse had a way to tinker a bit with CSS, the way it is possible if you set the theme `Default`.
You can’t edit the HTML and CSS of an “external” theme/component directly because changes would be overwritten when the theme/component is updated. It was still possible about two or three years ago, but this feature was removed.
You can create a local new component directly into Discourse’s interface to override the CSS of your existing theme (from the component’s CSS tab), or create a new component as a GitHub project that you will update through the component page (“update” button each time the repo is modified).
Do I understand well what you want to do and does this reply to your questions?
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