# Removing topic summary underneath first post
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604 "2016-01-07T17:23:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@anon34394924](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon34394924)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604/1 "2016-01-07T17:23:41Z")
I would like to remove this bar from displaying. Is there a way to do this?
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604/2 "2016-01-07T17:40:50Z")
Try to add in your admin panel \> Html/Css this :
```
.topic-map section {
display: none;
}
```
and this for the button:
```
.topic-map .buttons {
display: none;
}
```
Why do you want remove this element if I may ask? I think that it contains useful information for reading the topic.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604/3 "2016-01-07T21:01:48Z")
I have this hidden on my Discourse as well. Too much visual clutter.
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604/4 "2016-01-07T22:09:29Z")
> [@Tom\_Newsom](#):
>
> I have this hidden on my Discourse as well. Too much visual clutter.
Yes I know, but your forum has a lot of customization, imho it is more like a blog and hide those elements makes sense.
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### Author:  [@anon34394924](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon34394924)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604/5 "2016-01-07T22:20:32Z")
Thank you so much! Yes, like the other user said, too much visual clutter. Trying to make it look more simple.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604/6 "2016-01-07T22:41:39Z")
Not a blog at all - we have a wordpress for that.
We felt it formed a barrier between the OP and the rest of the conversation. The rest of Discourse is very clean and spare, because the conversation is the important thing. The info bar is just a splurge of icons and numbers. Feels out of place (and isn’t really all that useful. I came to the thread to read it, not learn its batting average or how many miles it gets to the gallon)
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604/7 "2016-01-07T23:17:12Z")
I agree with you for topic with few answers, but I use the button “summarize this topic” many times when there are many answers, especially if the topic is old and I read all the replies since the beginning and I have only to refresh my memory.
It is a question of habit I guess 😅
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604/8 "2016-01-07T23:24:31Z")
Just a reminder that the topic summary is only expanded on topics with \> 50 replies. So hiding it “everywhere” is only hiding it on topics with \> 50 replies.
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604/9 "2016-01-07T23:40:45Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> Just a reminder that the topic summary is only expanded on topics with \> 50 replies. So hiding it “everywhere” is only hiding it on topics with \> 50 replies.
Absolutely, but we have also funny categories, so the replies are about one line per post…quick to read after all.
For serious, long threads the “summarize topic” is more than welcome.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604/10 "2018-12-06T07:09:43Z")
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### Author:  [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2018, 7:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-topic-summary-underneath-first-post/37604/11 "2018-12-06T07:10:41Z")