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Want to make a reply stand out in a topic? Maybe there’s an answer to a question that’s a great alternative to the ‘Best Answer’. Or, perhaps you need to make sure your moderation team notices a certain reply when reading a topic in Control. Try using a modbreak! Why’re they called modbreaks? Because moderators use them...and because they visually ‘break’ up the topic (that’s my best guess, anyway).

How To Highlight A Reply Using A Modbreak

  1. View the topic containing the reply you want to highlight in Control.
  2. On the reply, click ‘Mark as’ and select ‘Modbreak’.
  3. The reply will now be highlighted on Control and in the Community Frontend.
⛰ Click to see what a reply marked with a modbreak looks like in the Community Frontend and in Control:Modbreaks in the Community Frontend:



Modbreaks in Control:



🎯 Just hit the ‘Unmark modbreak’ button in Control if you want to remove a modbreak.

🎯 Each topic can have more than one reply marked with a modbreak.

When I highlight a comment with a modbreak, it will also be highlighted in the frontend. But what color settings are being used here and how can I configure them? There seem to be variables “--config-thread-list-mod-break-background” and “--config-thread-list-mod-break-border-color” but they aren’t part of the color configuration.

Same question! We just updated our brand blue and now the highlighted post (using modbreak) is unreadable, as it’s black text on a dark blue background. In the past, it was simply a blue border.

Same question as my 2 peers above, does anybody have the answer on how to personalize the design of a Modbreak? 
Maybe @olimarrio ?

Hi everyone 👋,

Thanks for flagging this one @Daniele Cmty 🙌

The modbreak inherits the colour from your branded colour. However, if you want to edit this you can do so via custom CSS, for example:

.post--modbreak {
  border: dashed red;
  background: beige;
}

You can read more about your options with the border property for CSS here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border

P.S don’t use my example - it’s ugly 🤢

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