# Disabling categories

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-categories/12350
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 1, 2014, 6:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-categories/12350 "2014-02-01T06:17:29Z")
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### Author: ![jack2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jack2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jack2)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-categories/12350/6 "2017-10-23T14:42:44Z")

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I can’t get @lubos’s solution to work with the current Discourse version. The reason is that pinned topics has:

- no category column,
- a first column with `colspan=2`.

So when hiding `td.category`, the resulting table has pinned topic’s rows larger than other rows.

I’ve tried to hide the second column with `td:nth-child(2)`, but it has the drawback of hiding pinned topic’s authors (plus maybe it’ll break on mobile).

Since 2014, has another solution to disable categories on small forums been implemented or figured out?

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