# 📁 Attachment icon for topics with attachments?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2 يونيو 2014، 9:02م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176 "2014-06-02T21:02:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [2 يونيو 2014، 9:02م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/1 "2014-06-02T21:02:07Z")
> [@zogstrip](#):
>
> The result will be inlined in your post like so: discourse.txt(10 Bytes)
I just realized that my users can’t tell which posts might have cool sample files to download.
what are some ways I could mark a topic with this icon? (the download one)
thanks!
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [11 سبتمبر 2014، 1:26م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/2 "2014-09-11T13:26:28Z")
I was hoping we could use an emoji like 📁 in the topic title, but that doesn’t seem to be possible
any other tricks out there to an Attachment icon?
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### Author:  [@solhuebner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/solhuebner)
#### Post date: [11 سبتمبر 2014، 1:34م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/3 "2014-09-11T13:34:14Z")
I like that idea of knowing if there are attachment available 🙂
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [22 مارس 2015، 5:52م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/4 "2015-03-22T17:52:12Z")
@gerhard showed me the trick of finding an acceptable unicode character like ▼ which could be copied and pasted into the subject.
it’s not as good as Emoji support in the Subject line, but it’s better than nothing.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [22 مارس 2015، 8:01م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/5 "2015-03-22T20:01:32Z")
You didn’t link to the “trick”
Let me guess, FontAwesome?
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### Author:  [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)
#### Post date: [22 مارس 2015، 8:14م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/6 "2015-03-22T20:14:53Z")
U+047E “cyrillic capital letter ot” Ѿ would make a great glyph for “NSFW” topics… 😁
Unicode has granted us [a whole new category of emoticons](http://unicodeemoticons.com/):
How about this for new feature announcements: (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ\*:･ﾟ✧
Finally getting that old, obscure bug fixed: ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
Discussing a new controversial feature spec: ﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿ O’RLY?
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [22 مارس 2015، 8:15م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/7 "2015-03-22T20:15:29Z")
no link needed.. just find an acceptable unicode character and copy & paste it into the subject line.
I’d wanted to use this folder 📁, but it wouldn’t show in the subject line on Chrome on my mac (only safari). It does show for me here in the body… but troubleshooting that is secondary to getting the emojione working in the subject line IMO.
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [15 يونيو 2015، 11:26م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/8 "2015-06-15T23:26:21Z")
Fixed in [Any technical or philosophical reason no emoji in titles ❓ !
> [@Any technical or philosophical reason no emoji in titles question](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-technical-or-philosophical-reason-no-emoji-in-titles-question/27230/9):
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> [FEATURE: add support for emojis in title · discourse/discourse@2d03163 · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2d03163be0db145c3f4a41db95ce845c32651856)
Thank you Team Discourse!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [15 يونيو 2015، 11:34م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/9 "2015-06-15T23:34:29Z")
Sort of, I kind of want a general mechanism for attaching icons to a topic plugins can lean on, it was rather tricky to wire in for solved plugin.
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [15 يونيو 2015، 11:35م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/10 "2015-06-15T23:35:52Z")
Sure.. it would be great to have a more automatic, more official version. The posts in our forum where I’ve added `:file_folder:` in the title do look a bit nicer now.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [15 يونيو 2015، 11:46م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/11 "2015-06-15T23:46:28Z")
It would be nice if this icon was the same darkness/contrast/color as the rest of the text, so as to not be too distracting as the user scans the page. (Like the emoji is.)
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [16 يونيو 2015، 6:10م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/12 "2015-06-16T18:10:23Z")
> [@downey](#):
>
> It would be nice if this icon was the same darkness/contrast/color as the rest of the text
You can always add some CSS to tackle this…
This would impact all emoji in titles:
```CSS
.topic-link img.emoji,
.topic-list-item img.emoji {
-webkit-filter: grayscale(80%);
filter: grayscale(80%);
}
```
And this would target just 📁 :
```CSS
.topic-link img.emoji[title="file_folder"],
.topic-list-item img.emoji[title="file_folder"] {
-webkit-filter: grayscale(80%);
filter: grayscale(80%);
}
```
Making it look something like this:
and this:
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4 ديسمبر 2025، 11:14ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/file-folder-attachment-icon-for-topics-with-attachments/16176/13 "2025-12-04T11:14:25Z")