[alfex68]

Thanks for the reply. It's funny you mention that... I also thought about assigning a child style for the particular forum. Then I re-evaluated what I was actually trying to do and went the plugin direction.

There were two major things that brought about my decision.

1. The potential problems associated with updating and modifying the style while keeping the parent/child compatible. (now and in the future...especially when I forget what the heck I did and where I did it) I would hate to accidentally revert or overwrite all of my changes away due to one night of being sleepy. ( I'm sure we've all done that!)

2. I thought about it from performance perspective also...now I may be wrong here and I will gladly defer to the experts, but why parse an entire new style (even if it is a child), and cache those templates, when all I'm really trying to do is set a 3 maybe 4 line conditional?

When I successfully tried it for forumdisplay and for showthread...I was pretty sure the plugin was the most efficient way. And like I mentioned before the above code using the hook threadbit_display almost works.

Am I mistaken in my assumptions?