# Highlight moderator messages
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-moderator-messages/138155
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 9, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-moderator-messages/138155 "2020-01-09T14:55:27Z")
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### Author:  [@helmi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/helmi)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-moderator-messages/138155/1 "2020-01-09T14:55:27Z")
I’m currently working on moving an existing forum over to Discourse. So far they used the [color] tag to color any moderation related messages by a moderator in blue (instead of black default text) to show that this part of a post is related to moderation instead of just a normal part of the discussion.
For various reasons I think this is a bad idea but they still want to keep highlighting. So I was thinking about a different way to do it. Did anyone yet do a similar thing? I was thinking about putting a frame around it and attach a little text tag to it like “Moderator’s message” or something similar.
This should be doable, right? Maybe something like a custom code/tag/bbcode? Maybe something does exist already to help do this?
Any hint would be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-moderator-messages/138155/2 "2020-01-09T15:00:06Z")
If you click the … button under the post, then the 🔧 you should see a “add staff color” option. Is that what you’re looking for?
I’ve done it to this post, for example.
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### Author:  [@helmi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/helmi)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-moderator-messages/138155/3 "2020-01-09T16:00:59Z")
oh wow - looks like I didn’t use discourse intensively enough yet. Thanks, that was what I was looking for. It only seems to work for a full post and I was more thinking about only for a certain part of the post but that’s definitely good already.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-moderator-messages/138155/4 "2020-01-09T16:32:58Z")
You also have the option to add a [staff notice](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-notices-staff-notices/122434) (the option is right below staff color), which will add a separate little section like this above any post:
If you really want custom code for only _some_ content in a post you can do that too with a some customization ([Generic bbcode wrapper for theme components](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generic-bbcode-wrapper-for-theme-components/123516)).
So for example, if I wanted to highlight only some text I can wrap some text in my post
```plaintext
[wrap=mod-color]
This is my official moderator warning!
[/wrap]
```
Then in your theme’s custom CSS you can add this (admin \> customize \> themes)
```css
.topic-post.group-team [data-wrap="mod-color"] {
background: yellow;
color: red;
}
```
The important thing to note with this method is that to prevent normal users from using the same code you’ll need to create a new group, and that group would have to be the moderator’s primary group (primary group is configurable from an individual user’s admin page). In my example above I’m using a group named “team”, which is where `.group-team` comes from.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-moderator-messages/138155/5 "2020-02-08T16:33:03Z")
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