# Temporary avatar/titles
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporary-avatar-titles/40944
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 12, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporary-avatar-titles/40944 "2016-03-12T17:44:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporary-avatar-titles/40944/1 "2016-03-12T17:44:30Z")
EDIT: See @cpradio’s [post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporary-avatar-titles/40944/2) below for the implementation.
It might be nice to have the ability to set a temporary avatar or title. With April fools nearly upon us, I’m wanting for a way to decorate each member’s avatar for the day. It’s been the target of many internet April fools in the past, and I’m sure it could be re-used for other festivities.
An admin would be able to override a user’s avatar or title with a temporary one on a per user basis, or across the entire system (could apply a random one from a list for variation). Once a specified time has passed, the original is restored.
While changing these per user is easy, being able to revert to non-shenanegans mode automatically would be awesome.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporary-avatar-titles/40944/2 "2016-03-12T18:03:59Z")
I think you can do this with CSS
```plaintext
.main-avatar[href*=awole20] img
{
content: url('https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_1.png')
}
```
Seems to work here when using Dev tools.
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### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporary-avatar-titles/40944/3 "2016-03-12T18:10:11Z")
oh goodness, what a lovely and simple css hack! thanks! 🙂
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporary-avatar-titles/40944/4 "2016-03-12T18:13:50Z")
You are telling me, I just did a double take because I haven’t refreshed the page yet and you still have my avatar from my prior test. lol