# Split topics don't get "read" styling in list

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-topics-dont-get-read-styling-in-list/60515
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [6 באפריל,‏ 2017,‏ 1:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-topics-dont-get-read-styling-in-list/60515 "2017-04-06T01:24:19Z")
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### Author: ![barryvan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/barryvan/32/82635_2.png) [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)
#### Post date: [6 באפריל,‏ 2017,‏ 1:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-topics-dont-get-read-styling-in-list/60515/1 "2017-04-06T01:24:19Z")

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I believe this is related to:

> [@"USER split this topic" makes topic forever "un-visited"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-split-this-topic-makes-topic-forever-un-visited/36558):
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> This topic got off-topic, so I split the the posts to a new topic. Here you can see the new topic is greyed out with class="title visited" because I’ve read it all. The parent topic is still black, with class="title" Doesn’t matter how many times I go into the parent topic to read it, it remains black in the Latest view. This is the case with any topic that’s had posts forked to a new topic. Here’s an old one: [image] However, if I delete the “user split this topic” post,…

> [@"USER split this topic" makes topic forever "un-visited"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-split-this-topic-makes-topic-forever-un-visited/36558/3):
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> This is now fixed in latest courtesy of @sam

The topic doesn’t show up in my “unread” list, but it doesn’t get the “read” styling in the list – that is, its title is still displayed in black, rather than the expected light grey. It’s not a major issue, but it does make the inbox-zero perfectionist in me twitch. 😉

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [25 בנובמבר,‏ 2017,‏ 8:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-topics-dont-get-read-styling-in-list/60515/2 "2017-11-25T20:26:26Z")

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There are a heck of a lot of improvements we still need to make on split topics, for example, the split topic should properly be marked read if the posts in it were already read pre-split..