# Unable to delete a category

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-delete-a-category/73983
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [13. November 2017 um 13:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-delete-a-category/73983 "2017-11-13T13:52:50Z")
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### Author: ![Galinette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ccd318/32.png) [@Galinette](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Galinette)
#### Post date: [13. November 2017 um 13:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-delete-a-category/73983/1 "2017-11-13T13:52:50Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to delete the “lounge” category in a fresh discourse installation (v1.9.0.beta14 +165) localized in french.

When I click on the “Delete Category” button, a kind of bubble pop-up appears saying “Welcome to the lounge” in front of the button, and nothing happens. I cannot delete the category. This does not happen when deleting other categories I created myself.

As said before, the site is localized, so the delete button is “Supprimer la catégorie” and the weird popup is “Bienvenue dans le salon”

 ![discourse-remove-lounge-bug](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/1/d1dfc611b7c650acb49c42159fb39a93c77deff3.png)

What can I do?

Thanks!

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [13. November 2017 um 16:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-delete-a-category/73983/2 "2017-11-13T16:42:10Z")

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There should be more text in that popup. @awesomerobot is this a dark-theme CSS bug?

@Galinette, my _guess_ without seeing the full error is that the category has topics in it. Try deleting all lounge topics before deleting the category.

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [13. November 2017 um 16:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-delete-a-category/73983/3 "2017-11-13T16:56:14Z")

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Yeah appears to be a color issue with dark themes; I’ll get a fix in later today.

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [13. November 2017 um 22:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-delete-a-category/73983/4 "2017-11-13T22:13:20Z")

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Just submitted a fix. Thanks for letting us know @Galinette!

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5309](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5309)

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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: [15. November 2017 um 02:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-delete-a-category/73983/5 "2017-11-15T02:00:07Z")

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