# How to add description to Categories

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 18, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-description-to-categories/336701 "2024-11-18T12:11:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-description-to-categories/336701/5 "2024-11-18T21:13:28Z")

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I don’t think there is a setting. If there was one, I would expect it to be included in that code snippet.

I haven’t tried if it still works, but you could try

> [@How can I add the category descriptions to show in the category dropdowns?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-add-the-category-descriptions-to-show-in-the-category-dropdowns/209152/6):
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> As Daniela mentioned, we only show the category description in the dropdown for new users (trust level 0) and it’s hidden for everyone else. The thought is that regular visitors will benefit from seeing more categories at once and the descriptions are less useful. You can override this behavior by adding this to the head section of your site’s theme (admin \> customize \> themes \> edit html/css): \<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8"\> api.modifyClass("component:category-drop", { …

I actually do not miss the descriptions in the dropdown. If I want a list of all categories with their descriptions, I look at /categories (or the banners here at Meta). I like that the dropdown is short, so I do not have to scroll that much.

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