# Remove New Topic Button
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-new-topic-button/148003
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** css
**Created:** [April 14, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-new-topic-button/148003 "2020-04-14T19:27:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@baileysteelefarm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/baileysteelefarm)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-new-topic-button/148003/1 "2020-04-14T19:27:40Z")
How can I remove the New Topic button from the main page? I only want it to appear when a user selects a category.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-new-topic-button/148003/3 "2020-04-14T19:39:02Z")
I don’t know if there is a simple way to do it.
You may want to look at this in order to add a page-specific class to the page body: [Address /latest differently then /new etc via CSS - #4 by Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/t/address-latest-differently-then-new-etc-via-css/135240/4)
And then, target the create button through this css class to hide it where you want.
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### Author:  [@neounix](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neounix)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-new-topic-button/148003/4 "2020-04-15T02:11:49Z")
> [@baileysteelefarm](#):
>
> How can I remove the New Topic button from the main page? I only want it to appear when a user selects a category.
You can add this to your theme CSS:
```plaintext
button#create-topic{
display:none;
}
```
Please note, for future reference, that you can simply right click on any item in a web page and select `Inspect` and a web developer window will appear where the element is highlighted.
Then, you can quickly see that the `button` element has the unique id, `create-topic`.
_(So quickly in fact, that it takes less time to inspect the element, write and insert a few lines of CSS into your theme, than the time it takes to post a question in any forum and wait for a reply, thus saving you a lot of time and giving you the satisfaction of mastering these small tasks.)_
With this information, you can easily create a selector in CSS:
```plaintext
button#create-topic
```
This CSS selector means (in a nutshell) “select the button element with unique id create-topic”.
After you select it, you can easily hide it, it change the color, font, size, etc. as you like.
```plaintext
button#create-topic{
display:none;
}
```
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### Author:  [@baileysteelefarm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/baileysteelefarm)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-new-topic-button/148003/5 "2020-04-15T18:38:03Z")
I appreciate the help, however that removes the new topic button from all pages. I want it removed from just the home page.
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### Author:  [@neounix](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neounix)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-new-topic-button/148003/6 "2020-04-16T01:37:53Z")
Then, I kindly suggest you go to your home page and look for a CSS element unique to that page and create your own CSS selector to change the element on that particular page.
That is why I took the time to describe to you, in some details, how to do it; so you can do it yourself.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-new-topic-button/148003/7 "2020-04-16T02:07:36Z")
… such as `body.navigation-topics, body.navigation-categories { #create-topic { ... } }`.
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### Author:  [@baileysteelefarm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/baileysteelefarm)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-new-topic-button/148003/8 "2020-05-07T20:18:40Z")
Thank you Kane, that was very helpful.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-new-topic-button/148003/9 "2020-06-06T20:18:45Z")
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