# How to adjust topics so they load in a modal?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-adjust-topics-so-they-load-in-a-modal/65456
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [2017年七月2日 07:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-adjust-topics-so-they-load-in-a-modal/65456 "2017-07-02T07:16:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@mastef](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mastef)
#### Post date: [2017年七月2日 07:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-adjust-topics-so-they-load-in-a-modal/65456/1 "2017-07-02T07:16:06Z")
Ideally I’d like topics to show up in a modal sliding in from the right side, while the category view is still shown in the background.
Similar to the old Product Hunt layout, or the reddit iPad app layout ( [https://youtu.be/shzUF7FGNpI?t=18s](https://youtu.be/shzUF7FGNpI?t=18s) ) - or a similar view to Outlook/email clients.
Basically I’d like to prevent a page change on topic view, I want to show the topic in the right half of the screen, while still showing the category overview in a list view on the left side.
Is this possible - how would I attempt this?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2017年七月2日 16:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-adjust-topics-so-they-load-in-a-modal/65456/2 "2017-07-02T16:28:11Z")
What are you calling “threads”? There is no such thing in :discourse:
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### Author:  [@mastef](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mastef)
#### Post date: [2017年七月2日 16:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-adjust-topics-so-they-load-in-a-modal/65456/3 "2017-07-02T16:29:56Z")
> [@zogstrip](#):
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> What are you calling “threads”?
Topics - where the content of a topic is displayed. I’d like to display it in a modal, while the category view is still active.
Edited the first post for clarity
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [2017年七月2日 16:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-adjust-topics-so-they-load-in-a-modal/65456/4 "2017-07-02T16:59:08Z")
Hi mastef welcome to the forum
Kind of what Safari does with “open in split view”?
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### Author:  [@mastef](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mastef)
#### Post date: [2017年七月2日 17:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-adjust-topics-so-they-load-in-a-modal/65456/5 "2017-07-02T17:20:27Z")
Thank you
Yes, something pretty similar would be nice. How would you attempt to do it?
I saw that when a topic is loaded there’s obviously a json call - but the rendering already happens with an ember view I guess, right? Which events are fired? Is this something that would be feasible to implement provided there must be additional listeners per topic.
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [2017年七月3日 05:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-adjust-topics-so-they-load-in-a-modal/65456/6 "2017-07-03T05:08:35Z")
This sounds like a modification that would require a _lot_ of engineering to build. Do you really, _really_ need that and have a sizeable budget for it? If not, I don’t think you will get very far ☹
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### Author:  [@mastef](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mastef)
#### Post date: [2017年七月3日 05:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-adjust-topics-so-they-load-in-a-modal/65456/7 "2017-07-03T05:31:39Z")
Thanks, I’m an engineer. Modding is a passion 🤣