# Set a banner for Uncategorized and /categories
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-a-banner-for-uncategorized-and-categories/298499
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** category-banners
**Created:** [June 10, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-a-banner-for-uncategorized-and-categories/298499 "2019-06-10T07:20:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Tim\_Jefferies](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tim_Jefferies)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-a-banner-for-uncategorized-and-categories/298499/1 "2019-06-10T07:20:46Z")
Is it possible to set a banner for the uncategorized category?
Is it possible to set a banner for the categories page?
I want there to be a banner on these pages that displays a description (like the others do).
Any info on how to do that would be a huge help.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-a-banner-for-uncategorized-and-categories/298499/2 "2019-06-10T15:28:19Z")
It isn’t currently possible… but those seem like good reasonable requests… it will take some extra work because
1. The Uncategorized description is stored differently, because it’s not a “real” category
2. I’d have to add the ability to pull in a description from somewhere else for the Categories page, because it doesn’t have a description or anywhere to store one
I can look more closely at adding these options at some point (not sure when, unfortunately)… you’ll just have to keep an eye on this topic for updates.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-a-banner-for-uncategorized-and-categories/298499/3 "2019-06-10T17:38:54Z")
My recommendation would be to turn off uncategorized and create a real category.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_Jefferies](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tim_Jefferies)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-a-banner-for-uncategorized-and-categories/298499/4 "2019-06-10T21:01:26Z")
What im aiming for is a banner on every page, not just categories. It looks rather strange from a design point of view to have it only appear on some screens. Just the title of the page would be enough - no need for a description if there isn’t one.
I guess the only way to do this would be to clone the component and set it up to run on all pages?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-a-banner-for-uncategorized-and-categories/298499/5 "2019-06-10T22:51:56Z")
Oh right, that’s a bit different… so you’d also want topics to have titles in the same banner style too?
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### Author:  [@Tim\_Jefferies](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tim_Jefferies)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-a-banner-for-uncategorized-and-categories/298499/6 "2019-06-11T01:12:01Z")
I didn’t consider that, but actually that would look quite nice from a theming point of view. I’m looking at it from the end users point of view - they probably don’t know the difference between a category, topic, home page etc…
My goal is to create a consistent UX. I set the banner to be transparent and use the background as the banner itself.. In future I’m looking to change the page background as a way to define the category instead.
Here’s what it currently looks like (and how I ideally want every page to look) 🙂
Without a banner for every page though, it looks inconsistent with the main overflow moved up the page (actually off the screen which is how the default discourse theme does it which I don’t want).