# The topic list doesn't need a category column

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-topic-list-doesnt-need-a-category-column/101352
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [05.Ноябрь.2018 21:31:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-topic-list-doesnt-need-a-category-column/101352 "2018-11-05T21:31:50Z")
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### Author: ![jack2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jack2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jack2)
#### Post date: [17.Ноябрь.2018 20:11:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-topic-list-doesnt-need-a-category-column/101352/9 "2018-11-17T20:11:14Z")

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Removing the category column would have the additional benefit of getting rid of the `colspan=2` of pinned topics. See here:

> [@Disabling categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-categories/12350/6):
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> I can’t get @lubos’s solution to work with the current Discourse version. The reason is that pinned topics has: no category column, a first column with colspan=2. So when hiding td.category, the resulting table has pinned topic’s rows larger than other rows. I’ve tried to hide the second column with td:nth-child(2), but it has the drawback of hiding pinned topic’s authors (plus maybe it’ll break on mobile). Since 2014, has another solution to disable categories on small forums been implemen…

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