# Icons and backgrounds for Categories

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/icons-and-backgrounds-for-categories/30304>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [March 7, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/icons-and-backgrounds-for-categories/30304 "2013-03-07T16:23:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![meltman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/meltman/32/2907_2.png) [@meltman](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meltman)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/icons-and-backgrounds-for-categories/30304/1 "2013-03-07T16:23:37Z")

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I'd love the ability to define or "edit" a category's icons and potentially background - Kind of like the TV series is done now, but one level higher.

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Seems like there are some inconsistencies between platforms on these icons (Plex Android home movies icon vs iPad home movies icon). It would be nice to drop a custom icon for my home movies or for my music category.

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**Author:** ![mjbxx](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mjbxx/32/3496_2.png) [@mjbxx](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mjbxx)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/icons-and-backgrounds-for-categories/30304/2 "2013-03-07T18:10:05Z")

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/icons-and-backgrounds-for-categories/30304/3 "2021-04-20T23:37:58Z")

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Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate(s)

> [@Ability to change background art for plex media sections](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ability-to-change-background-art-for-plex-media-sections/29346):
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> I know this feature used to be present in the cocoa manager but is absent from plex web client.

> [@Allow libraries to have custom icons](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-libraries-to-have-custom-icons/693495):
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> I am entirely aware this has been suggested before but all the other topics on it are closed and had little to no response from the Plex team. It appears that it was possible before but was disabled at some point. While I can see how this might be some amount of effort on the Plex teams behalf, could you know write it in a way that it falls back to the default icons on a device that hasn’t implemented the feature and show the custom icons on devices that do? I have 4 libraries that use the TV …

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/icons-and-backgrounds-for-categories/30304/4 "2021-06-10T00:47:19Z")

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