# Custom Annotation Status Icons?

**URL:** <https://pdfjs.community/t/custom-annotation-status-icons/2080>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [September 30, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://pdfjs.community/t/custom-annotation-status-icons/2080 "2022-09-30T14:20:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![elliot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@elliot](https://pdfjs.community/u/elliot)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://pdfjs.community/t/custom-annotation-status-icons/2080/1 "2022-09-30T14:20:56Z")

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**Which product are you using?**  
PDF.js Express Plus

**PDF.js Express Version**  
8.7

**Detailed description of issue**  
Is there a way to change the status & icons used with a custom annotation status?

I want to remove all of the existing annotation status’, and add my own, but I also want to control the icon they show when they are applied. Is this possible?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/pdfjscommunity/original/1X/ffbcd25c7d423db8d5acd5db201c272f4db306dd.png) [@system](https://pdfjs.community/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://pdfjs.community/t/custom-annotation-status-icons/2080/3 "2022-09-30T14:21:01Z")

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**Hello, I’m Ron, an automated tech support bot 🤖**

While you wait for one of our customer support representatives to get back to you, please check out some of these documentation pages:

Guides:
- [Customize toolbar in viewer](https://pdfjs.express/documentation/ui-customization/customizing-header.8)
- [Remove annotations in viewer](https://pdfjs.express/documentation/annotation/remove-annotations)
- [Customize display authors for annotations](https://pdfjs.express/documentation/annotation/display-authors)

APIs:
- [Core](https://pdfjs.express/api/Core.html#__anchor)
- [UI - setAnnotationContentOverlayHandler(customOverlayHandler)](https://pdfjs.express/api/UI.html#.setAnnotationContentOverlayHandler__anchor)
- [UndefinedhistoryChanged](https://pdfjs.express/api/namespaces.list.html#event:historyChanged__anchor)

Forums:
- [How hide annotation when toolbar group changed](https://pdfjs.community/t/how-hide-annotation-when-toolbar-group-changed/1574/1)
- [How to render xfdf back into pdf](https://pdfjs.community/t/how-to-render-xfdf-back-into-pdf/2026/16)
- [Cannot view existing annotation on pdf in PDF.js Express Viewer](https://pdfjs.community/t/cannot-view-existing-annotation-on-pdf-in-pdf-js-express-viewer/1160/1)

  
  

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**Author:** ![tgordon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@tgordon](https://pdfjs.community/u/tgordon)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://pdfjs.community/t/custom-annotation-status-icons/2080/5 "2022-10-03T19:10:27Z")

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Hello elliot,  
This would require [advanced UI customization](https://pdfjs.express/documentation/ui-customization/advanced-customization). Let me know if that works for you!

Best regards,  
Tyler Gordon  
Web Development Support Engineer  
PDFTron

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**Author:** ![bart.thijs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@bart.thijs](https://pdfjs.community/u/bart.thijs)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://pdfjs.community/t/custom-annotation-status-icons/2080/6 "2024-01-26T12:09:34Z")

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Hi Tyler,  
I’m interested too in this topic. I’ve been looking around and I guess that the advanced UI customization would indeed be the best option.  
Can you give me some directions where to look in order to be able to adapt the annotation status options and icons?  
Kind regards  
Bart

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**Author:** ![tgordon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@tgordon](https://pdfjs.community/u/tgordon)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://pdfjs.community/t/custom-annotation-status-icons/2080/7 "2024-01-29T21:01:55Z")

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Hello bart.thijs,

Our icons are under the assets/icons folder: [webviewer-ui/assets/icons at 10.6 · PDFTron/webviewer-ui · GitHub](https://github.com/PDFTron/webviewer-ui/blob/10.6/assets/icons/)

Best regards,  
Tyler