# Need help setting up category list images

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-setting-up-category-list-images/199061
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 3, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-setting-up-category-list-images/199061 "2021-08-03T18:27:52Z")
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### Author: ![Benjamin\_D](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/benjamin_d/32/277831_2.png) [@Benjamin\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_D)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-setting-up-category-list-images/199061/4 "2021-08-03T20:30:53Z")

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Oh I see, my bad 😅  
so as I’m really not good at css and I’m not sure you should go down the road of `position : relative`, in case you’ll go for the html shuffling you’ll find this more useful:

> [@Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developing-discourse-themes-theme-components/93648/1):
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> ##### Overriding Discourse templates
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> Just like you can add new elements to templates, you can make changes to existing elements by overriding the template. A word of caution first. When you override a template, you’re essentially using a new template in its place. While this is not inherently a bad thing. it does come with increased maintenance.

and there is [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/templates/navigation/category.hbs](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/templates/navigation/category.hbs) , but as to make some changes to the [discourse/app/views/categories/index.html.erb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/views/categories/index.html.erb) , you’ll probably need a plugin.

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