# \#main-outlet bg hides custom category background when making a topic a banner

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/main-outlet-bg-hides-custom-category-background-when-making-a-topic-a-banner/26359>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [15 Marzo 2015, 10:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/main-outlet-bg-hides-custom-category-background-when-making-a-topic-a-banner/26359 "2015-03-15T10:41:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mbs/32/115465_2.png) [@mbs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbs)\
**Post date:** [26 Marzo 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/main-outlet-bg-hides-custom-category-background-when-making-a-topic-a-banner/26359/4 "2015-03-26T15:19:04Z")

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> [@elberet](#):
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> Yeah, category background images aren’t well supported by the default styles. You’ll probably want to customize them quite a bit.
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> Here’s my solution:  
> [https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images/24403/24?u=elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-background-images/24403/24)

I see.

This means I cannot just use the category background image to upload a category image, and I have to edit custom CSS to only apply the background within a certain category.

Actually – what I did was to just apply the white from the topic you linked, so if a topic has its own background, cool, otherwise it’s standard Discourse.

That’s perfect, thanks again 😃

Though I believe it’s something to be fixed eventually?

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