# Decorate topic list with jquery?

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [December 7, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/decorate-topic-list-with-jquery/53931 "2016-12-07T17:09:55Z")\
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Yes I have indeed looked over the TLP code. Unfortunately, particular to how I render the blocks (for example [Choropleth · GitHub](http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4060606)), the only `cooked` data that resides in the database is an html tag,

```html
<div class="gist" data-user="mbostock" data-gist="4060606"></div>

```

For decorating posts, I’m currently using jquery to find the `.gist` class, `get()` the gist data according to the `user` and `gist`, then render the iframe.

For excerpts, I was hoping to use a similar method, using the untouched `div` in the excerpt to get the data necessary to find the thumbnail on github.

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