# Need to target topics & author for CSS
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-target-topics-author-for-css/33027
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 8, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-target-topics-author-for-css/33027 "2015-09-08T17:56:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@lisajill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lisajill)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-target-topics-author-for-css/33027/1 "2015-09-08T17:56:57Z")
We have a need to target individual topics by CSS to highlight authors in specific ways **for individual threads**. The ultimate goal here is to make specific authors more visible in topics with many replies - but only in that thread.
So for instance, if we were having a question/answer session in this thread there might be a specific expert responding but that person should be ‘normal’ in the rest of the forums. So we would need two new classes for each **topic** (full thread including replies)
- Class for each author (their username would be ideal)
- Class for the topic ID
This would enable use to use something like this:
```
div.abc.xyz {
/* rules go here */
}
```
to get very specific within-topic targeting. This would also allow us to highlight multiple ‘experts’ per thread as needed.
By category/group is not specific enough in this case. Can we get more granular?
I understand we’d need to add those rules for each topic in the Customize section which is perfect for our need.
Any chance this could be added?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-target-topics-author-for-css/33027/2 "2015-09-08T18:05:31Z")
You can already do that using “`data-topic-id`” and “`data-user-id`” 😉
```stylesheet
[data-topic-id="33027"] {
[data-user-id="1995"] {
/* rules goes here */
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@lisajill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lisajill)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-target-topics-author-for-css/33027/3 "2015-09-08T19:44:59Z")
**Thank you!!** :allthethings:
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### Author:  [@lisajill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lisajill)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-target-topics-author-for-css/33027/4 "2015-09-08T19:45:49Z")
Oh! Quick q: where do I find the user ID?
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-target-topics-author-for-css/33027/5 "2015-09-08T19:51:48Z")
Go to the user page, put `.json` on the end of the url, and look for `"user":{"id":123,` . It’ll be around the middle of the response 😕
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### Author:  [@lisajill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lisajill)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-target-topics-author-for-css/33027/6 "2015-09-08T20:29:53Z")
Thank you @riking!
This can be closed out, appreciate all the help!
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-to-target-topics-author-for-css/33027/7 "2015-09-08T20:31:33Z")