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Per Berntsen
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 12, 2026
Question

CSS stylesheet for improving the forums

  • February 12, 2026
  • 6 replies
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I have written some CSS to improve the display of the new forums.
It is focused on better readability (font sizes and weights) and reducing wasted space.
It also includes indication of visited posts (gray text).

 

The stylesheet is free to use at your own risk, and you can edit it to taste.
Be aware that future updates of the forum software may lead to unexpected results when using injected css.

 

The Photoshop main page is coded differently than the other main pages, so there are some inconsistencies. The most important one being that the Photoshop main page will display "Welcome to the community" instead of "Photoshop ecosystem" at the top. All other main pages use the name of the application here.

 

To use, open the attached file (Adobe-forums.css) in a plain text editor.
If you have trouble opening it, change the extension from .css to .txt.
Then copy the contents of the file (not the file itself) into a CSS injector extension for your web browser.
I use the excellent User JavaScript and CSS extension from the Chrome web store.
It will work with Chromium based browsers, like Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera and Edge.
You have to give it permission to read and change data on websites.
CSS injector extensions are also available for other browsers.

 

I also recommend using the script by ​@johnrellis , which expands all nested replies, makes the reply box resizable, sets sort order to Oldest first, and adds the exact time and date of posts.

 

 

 

    6 replies

    leo.r
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 23, 2026

    Thanks for the script, Per!

     

    As ​@johnrellis discovered, the script eliminates the sticky-floating reply bar introduced recently by Gainsight, which is great:

    https://community.adobe.com/questions%2D98/browser%2Dscript%2Dto%2Dmake%2Dthe%2Dnew%2Dforums%2Dmore%2Duseable%2D1548711?postid=7544755#post7544755

     

    Interestingly, just in the middle of me tweaking your CSS after installing it, the forum appearance has been totally changed by Gainsight. Actually, it’s much better now. Took me some time to understand what on earth is going on. After the redesign, your CSS, however, cannot be applied anymore (that is, it messes everything up), as many elements have changed drastically.

     

    However, I found the exact thing I needed from your CSS, which does exactly what I need:

    .editor__collapsed {
    display: none !important;
    }
    /*hides Leave a reply box*/

    This hides the floating reply field. (It also hides the original static field beneath the original post, but I never needed it anyway.)

     

    Thanks again, this helped a lot.

    leo.r
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 23, 2026

    Now, I’m not sure what’s going on with the forums, but the changes I mentioned earlier have now been reverted.

     

    Here’s how the forums looked for about an hour for me (note the AUTHOR label here):

     

     

     

     

    Now all these changes have gone, and the forum reverted to its standard appearance.

    johnrellis
    Legend
    February 17, 2026

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    Using version 1.1, the search results page isn’t showing post titles, though it is showing the first lines of the posts (the first lines might be marginally helpful for search results).  

     

    For example:

    https://community.adobe.com/search?category=Lightroom+Classic&q=sdk+crash+lrtasks

     

     

    Disabling the style sheet shows the post titles:

     

    Per Berntsen
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 17, 2026

    Thanks for reporting this.
    Fixed in version 1.2.

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 15, 2026

    Keep in mind that custom stylesheets are device-specific.

    The broader community and your other web devices won’t see any changes. 

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Per Berntsen
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 13, 2026

    Version 1.1 of the stylesheet is attached here.

    Fixed in this version: Links at the very top of the Photoshop page are now working, fixed by unhiding the Welcome to the new Adobe community banner.


    Issues: The Announcements page (link at the very top of main pages) does not display properly.
    This may be beyond my capabilities to fix. Workaround: Temporarily disable the CSS browser extension when viewing this page.

    johnrellis
    Legend
    February 12, 2026

    @Sameer K, ​@Rikk Flohr_Photography, my previous post in this thread, a very short, simple one with just English words, has been submitted for moderation!

     

    johnrellis
    Legend
    February 12, 2026

    Excellent. Greying out visited posts is so helpful!