# Kibana dashboard modes: edit vs view

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-modes-edit-vs-view/57844>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 11, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-modes-edit-vs-view/57844 "2016-08-11T18:15:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ChrisR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@ChrisR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrisR)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-modes-edit-vs-view/57844/1 "2016-08-11T18:15:07Z")

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In Kibana 5.0, the dashboard appears to be much cleaner and save a lot of screen real estate by removing the widget borders, padding and headers.

However, when hovering over a dashboard with many widgets, the headers that pop up can be distracting, busy and sometimes overwhelming. It may be nice to have a dashboard setting (like "Use dark theme") for edit mode or view mode. In view mode, widget headers would not pop up when hovering over it.

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-modes-edit-vs-view/57844/2 "2016-08-11T19:30:45Z")

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Hi Chris,

I created this as an enhancement request for Kibana:

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/7983>

This would be a good improvement IMO. I would also suggest to add any additional feedback you have in github too.

thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-modes-edit-vs-view/57844/3 "2017-07-06T13:41:19Z")

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