# ריפוד מוגזם ברשימת נושאים מונע חלקית לחיצה על קישור קטגוריה

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/excessive-padding-on-topic-list-partially-prevents-click-on-category-link/178928
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [8 בפברואר,‏ 2021,‏ 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excessive-padding-on-topic-list-partially-prevents-click-on-category-link/178928 "2021-02-08T17:03:13Z")
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### Author: ![renato](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/renato/32/383632_2.png) [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [8 בפברואר,‏ 2021,‏ 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excessive-padding-on-topic-list-partially-prevents-click-on-category-link/178928/1 "2021-02-08T17:03:14Z")

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With the current padding on `.topic-list .main-link a.title`:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/c/6c1729eca15945797cdf333ab29a488c052db221.png)

Specially on mobile, you need to touch on the very bottom to go directly to the category.

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [8 בפברואר,‏ 2021,‏ 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excessive-padding-on-topic-list-partially-prevents-click-on-category-link/178928/2 "2021-02-08T21:13:01Z")

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That’s intentional, the tap area for categories was already borderline unusable so we increased the padding to always take you to the topic instead. We can probably increase it a little more to ensure that’s always the case.

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### Author: ![renato](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/renato/32/383632_2.png) [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [8 בפברואר,‏ 2021,‏ 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excessive-padding-on-topic-list-partially-prevents-click-on-category-link/178928/3 "2021-02-08T21:30:31Z")

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If this is intentional, it means you’ll eventually get rid of the `<a/>` for the category?

I think this will remove a feature I use very often, it would be nice to be able to change this padding via CSS in my instance and still have the category link working – cause IMHO this is a regression.

> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> the tap area for categories was already borderline unusable

There are some customizations that make it “more” usable (like the Category Icons component with the box setting for categories), but I was used to navigate through these category links here on meta too.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/2/12a9cdedc74525c510c3cb124277e7aa0cf361c7.jpeg)

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [8 בפברואר,‏ 2021,‏ 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excessive-padding-on-topic-list-partially-prevents-click-on-category-link/178928/4 "2021-02-08T21:59:26Z")

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> [@renato](#):
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> If this is intentional, it means you’ll eventually get rid of the `<a/>` for the category?

No plans for it at the moment. We have a component we use to display categories the same way everywhere that includes the `<a>`, and it’s easier to cover it than do something differently to remove the link in this one place.

> [@renato](#):
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> There are some customizations that make it “more” usable (like the Category Icons component with the box setting for categories), but I was used to navigate through these category links here on meta too.

That’s a good point! something for us to keep in mind.
