# Prevent showing the edits icon?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-showing-the-edits-icon/42983>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Abril 22, 2016, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-showing-the-edits-icon/42983 "2016-04-22T11:36:51Z")\
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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:** [Abril 22, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-showing-the-edits-icon/42983/5 "2016-04-22T19:11:21Z")

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If you wanted to do CSS, instead of `display: none` maybe `visibility: hidden` or opacity could work,

i.e. the pencil would still be there, but being not seen one would have to accidentally or intentionally click there.

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