# Different custom panel CSS files for different user roles
**URL:** https://forum.getkirby.com/t/different-custom-panel-css-files-for-different-user-roles/14820
**Category:** Questions
**Tags:** v3
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/different-custom-panel-css-files-for-different-user-roles/14820 "2019-07-04T11:28:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@joofu](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/joofu)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/different-custom-panel-css-files-for-different-user-roles/14820/1 "2019-07-04T11:28:19Z")
I would like to have different Custom Panel CSS files for different roles, e.g. to hide the Panel Search button at the top right (customers) or not (admin).
I tried two ‘solutions’, none of them were successful ☹
Does anyone have another tip or are there errors in my attempts?
Is it even possible to have different Panel CSS files?
Solution 1
similar to the solution for role related blueprints I have set up the following plugin:
```auto
$user = $kirby->user();
if ($user && $user->role() == 'admin') {
$dir = __DIR__. '/admin/';
} elseif ($user && $user->role() == 'editor') {
$dir = __DIR__. '/editor/';
}
Kirby::plugin('jf/role-panelcss', [
'panel' => [
'css' => $dir . 'css/custom-panel.css'
]
]);
```
The css files are located in the plugin-folder ‘/site/plugins/jf-role-panelcss/admin/css/custom-panel.css’ respectively ‘/site/plugins/jf-role-panelcss/editor/css/custom-panel.css’
Solution 2
custom root setup
index.php
```auto
require __DIR__. '/kirby/bootstrap.php';
$kirby = new Kirby();
$user = $kirby->user();
if ($user && $user->role() == 'admin') {
$kirby = new Kirby([
'roots' => [
'assets' => __DIR__. '/site/assets/admin/'
],
]);
} elseif ($user && $user->role() == 'editor') {
$kirby = new Kirby([
'roots' => [
'assets' => __DIR__. '/site/assets/editor/'
],
]);
}
echo $kirby->render();
```
config.php
```auto
return [
'panel' => [
'css' => kirby()->root('assets').'/css/custom-panel.css',
]
];
```
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### Author:  [@texnixe](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/texnixe)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/different-custom-panel-css-files-for-different-user-roles/14820/2 "2019-07-04T11:44:15Z")
The second option won’t work because you can’t use `Kirby()` in the config.
The first one won’t work because there is no such extension.
But you can use this approach and use different config roots based on user role instead: [https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/system/roots/config](https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/system/roots/config)
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### Author:  [@joofu](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/joofu)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/different-custom-panel-css-files-for-different-user-roles/14820/3 "2019-07-04T13:36:45Z")
@texnixe Thank you very much again! works great.
If someone needs this solution as well, please note that the role-specific config-root directories must obviously NOT be under site/config/, that didn’t work for me - I created a separate directory under /site.