# Remove Personal Chat items

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-personal-chat-items/263676>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** sidebar\
**Created:** [May 3, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-personal-chat-items/263676 "2023-05-03T13:24:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-personal-chat-items/263676/2 "2023-05-03T16:19:59Z")

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hi @JBM. welcome to Meta. 👋

does this work?

```scss
.sidebar-section[data-section-name="chat-dms"] {
  display: none
}

```

are you just wanting to hide chat stuff from the sidebar or are you wanting to turn off chat altogether? you can disable chat plugin in `admin-plugins-chat-settings`.

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