# How to disable leaving a channel?

**URL:** <https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-disable-leaving-a-channel/6977>\
**Category:** Sendbird Chat UIKit\
**Created:** [April 5, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-disable-leaving-a-channel/6977 "2023-04-05T21:11:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Grinich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/stephen_grinich/32/3852_2.png) [@Stephen\_Grinich](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Stephen_Grinich)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-disable-leaving-a-channel/6977/1 "2023-04-05T21:11:51Z")

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**[Problem/Question]**  
I am creating channels with the API, and I would not like a user to be able to leave the channel.

how can I disable this functionality?

I tired hiding the div element but I couldn’t get that to work

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**Author:** ![sardorbek.numonov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/sardorbek.numonov/32/697_2.png) [@sardorbek.numonov](https://community.sendbird.com/u/sardorbek.numonov)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 5:21am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-disable-leaving-a-channel/6977/2 "2023-04-10T05:21:16Z")

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Hi @Stephen_Grinich  
You can override the CSS class and make it display: none in ‘overrides.css’;.

```auto
.sendbird-channel-preview .sendbird-channel-preview__action {
  display: none;
}

```

Then import ‘./overrides.css’ before loading the UI.

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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Grinich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/stephen_grinich/32/3852_2.png) [@Stephen\_Grinich](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Stephen_Grinich)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/how-to-disable-leaving-a-channel/6977/3 "2023-04-10T17:10:54Z")

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Thanks! Worked perfectly.