# Email invites, can't click send invite button on certain categories

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 12, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168 "2016-07-12T15:02:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author: ![tkiblin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tkiblin/32/121586_2.png) [@tkiblin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tkiblin)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168/1 "2016-07-12T15:02:38Z")

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Pretty sure I have something setup wrong, but can’t figure it out…

If I try and invite a user, and type in [name@gmail.com](mailto:name@gmail.com), as soon as I try and type in the com, net, etc, the send invite button becomes non-clickable.

Is there a setting somewhere I missed?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/e/8ef8332cfeb27c33fe73bfc51abf09918724609b.gif)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168/2 "2016-07-12T22:07:33Z")

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Can you repro this @techapj?

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### Author: ![tkiblin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tkiblin/32/121586_2.png) [@tkiblin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tkiblin)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168/3 "2016-07-13T19:27:00Z")

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Just tested on 1.6.0beta11 +41, same results.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168/4 "2016-07-13T21:29:47Z")

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Hmm, I can’t repro this here. Are you using SSO? If you are using SSO you can’t have local email signups.

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### Author: ![tkiblin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tkiblin/32/121586_2.png) [@tkiblin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tkiblin)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168/5 "2016-07-13T21:45:15Z")

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Thank’s @codinghorror, no SSO and using AWS SES for email.

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### Author: ![rewphus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rewphus/32/115836_2.png) [@rewphus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rewphus)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168/7 "2016-07-13T21:54:20Z")

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You sure you don’t have additional code in your customization file that could be causing this? I just tested this on [newmaterial.trydiscourse.com](http://newmaterial.trydiscourse.com) and it worked fine.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/d/8d09d6975bcc64979c4b40e1287df95916c33f8b.gif)

What browser are you using?

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### Author: ![tkiblin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tkiblin/32/121586_2.png) [@tkiblin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tkiblin)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168/8 "2016-07-13T21:58:54Z")

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Ok, that is really odd, I just re-enabled the CSS changes, and reloaded, and it is working now in latest Chrome and FF on Windows.

Not sure what is going on or why, but right now is appears to be working again.

Thank you!

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### Author: ![rewphus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rewphus/32/115836_2.png) [@rewphus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rewphus)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168/9 "2016-07-13T22:14:19Z")

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Great. Do you mind removing the post in [Material Design Theme - #36](https://meta.discourse.org/t/material-design-stock-theme/47142/36) to avoid any confusion?

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### Author: ![tkiblin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tkiblin/32/121586_2.png) [@tkiblin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tkiblin)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168/11 "2016-07-13T22:19:02Z")

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Ok, I’m retarded 🙂 appears to be on categories that are admin only, the invite doesn’t work, which makes sense. Sorry @jeff and @rewphus. Still cutting my teeth with Discourse.

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-invites-cant-click-send-invite-button-on-certain-categories/47168/12 "2016-07-14T15:22:56Z")

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