# “New topic” button working incorrectly

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-button-working-incorrectly/270071>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 29, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-button-working-incorrectly/270071 "2023-06-29T18:51:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-button-working-incorrectly/270071/5 "2023-06-30T17:51:44Z")

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The admins have added a CSS customization that looks like this:

```css
body:not([class*="category-council-"]):not(.staff).closed-topic .reply, 
body:not([class*="category-council-"]):not(.staff).closed-topic #topic-footer-buttons .create, 
body:not([class*="category-council-"]):not(.staff).closed-topic .timeline-container .create, 
body:not([class*="category-council-"]):not(.staff).closed-topic #reply-control {
  display: none !important;
}

```

This appears to be ok at initial glance, but then I can see `body.closed-topic` is applied to the topic list… which really doesn’t make sense.

This class isn’t in Discourse by default, so tracking down another customization that adds that…

```xml
<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8">
const container = Discourse. __container__ ;
const controller = container.lookup("controller:topic");
const currentUser = api.getCurrentUser();

api.onPageChange(() => {

  if (!currentUser || currentUser.admin || currentUser.moderator || currentUser.trust_level != 4 ) {
    return;
  } else {
    let model = controller.get("model");
    
    document.querySelector("body").classList.add("closed-topic");
    
    if (model) {
      if (!model.closed) {
        document.querySelector("body").classList.remove("closed-topic");
      }
    }
  }

});
</script>

```

So here, if you’re logged in, not an admin, not a moderator, and are trust level 4… then it adds the `closed-topic` class to the page body.

This class is only removed if `model.closed` is false, which means… if it’s not a closed topic (or even if it’s not a topic at all) the `closed-topic` class will be applied.

This line:

`document.querySelector("body").classList.add("closed-topic");`

should probably be within `if (model)` because otherwise it’s applied even when there’s no model present (e.g., when you’re not within a topic)…

It seems the intention was to prevent trust level 4 users from replying to closed topics, but it’s applied too broadly.

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