Add "author" badge to NodeBB posts using either CSS or jQuery

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I thought I had already created a dedicated thread for this elsewhere, but clearly not - it was probably bundled in with another topic.

If you want to create an “Author” badge on each post that looks like the below, you can do this using pure CSS

Required CSS

.topic-owner-post [itemprop=name]:after {
    border: 2px solid var(--bs-border-color);
    border-radius: 0.25rem !important;
    color: var(--bs-body-color);
    content: "Author";
    margin-left: 5px;
    padding: 2px 10px;
    display: inline-block;
}

However, things get slightly more complicated if you want to add an icon in the same element, like the below

As the above example makes use of the :after pseudo element, it’s not possible to have two font-family statements when using content: ""

To facilitate this, you’d need a jQuery function that looks like the below

$(document).ready(function() {
    $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(data) {
        $(".topic-owner-post [itemprop=name]").append("<span class='author'><span class='author-icon'><i class='fa-light fa-bullhorn'></i>Author</span>");
    });
});

Here, you use span tags to insert both the icon, and text

Obviously, you need to ensure that the css for .author and .author-icon exist.

Here’s an example

span.author {
    border: 2px solid var(--bs-border-color);
    border-radius: 0.25rem !important;
    color: var(--bs-body-color);
    content: "Author";
    margin-left: 5px;
    padding: 2px 10px;
    display: inline-block;
}
span.author-icon i {
    margin-right: 5px;
}