# Indicate whether author of a post is also author of OP

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/indicate-whether-author-of-a-post-is-also-author-of-op/60640>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [8 Aprile 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/indicate-whether-author-of-a-post-is-also-author-of-op/60640 "2017-04-08T12:36:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Post date:** [11 Aprile 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/indicate-whether-author-of-a-post-is-also-author-of-op/60640/8 "2017-04-11T12:26:56Z")

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I tried a couple of class-based solutions for this and my favourite one is to use the topic owner avatar halo as already used in topic lists:

```
.topic-owner .topic-avatar img {
box-shadow: 0 0 3px 1px #a7d5ec;
border: 2px solid #85c2e0;
position: relative;
top: -2px;
left: -2px
}

```

If you are already using the [material design avatar shadow](https://meta.discourse.org/t/material-design-stock-theme/47142/123), it makes sense to simply change the colour of that shadow:

```
.topic-owner .topic-avatar img {
    box-shadow: 0 2px 4px #a7d5ec;
    border: 2px solid #85c2e0;
}

.topic-avatar img:hover {
    box-shadow: 0 8px 10px #a7d5ec);
}

```

So far so good. What I haven’t figured out yet is **how to turn this off for the first post in a topic**. Could anyone advise me?

Here is another way of indicating the original poster, but I dismissed it because I find it too strong plus: the fontawesome rocket looks like a wrench at that small size:

```css
.topic-owner .names span.username::after { 
    content: '\f135';
    font-family: FontAwesome;
    font-size: smaller;
    color: #646464;
    margin:0px 0px 0px 5px;
} 

```

Disclaimer: I am quite a CSS-noob so chances are that these snippets are not perfect. Feel free to provide improved versions.

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