# 'Mark as read' needed within categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-as-read-needed-within-categories/94743>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** bulk-actions\
**Created:** [August 14, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-as-read-needed-within-categories/94743 "2018-08-14T20:38:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mark-as-read-needed-within-categories/94743/5 "2018-08-15T20:18:30Z")

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Admittedly, my workflow is different than yours. I use the Watch list and “consider new when” settings, and the “last visit” line.

I would not like this forced upon me by a site, because depending on how busy I am and where my head is at there are times when I may be interested in reading “marginally interested in” topics that I have not read yet and use the visited property of the title links to identify those.

Anyway, IMHO this would be more robust using JavaScript to give the class value visited so the link text color would “just work”. But it can be done using CSS that uses the general sibling combinator (tweak color to taste)

```plaintext
tr.last-visit ~ tr.topic-list-item .main-link a.title { 
  color: #919191; 
}

```

If you think all your members want this, you can enter that in your Admin → Customize. But I really think you should enter this in your own user stylesheet and not as site CSS

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