News Center - UI Enhancement Request

Web part name (as shown in web part properties) to which you’re suggesting an enhancement

  • News Center

What is current web part behavior (or look) that doesn’t work for you?

  • There are 3 things I would like requested to be reviewed for an enhancement.
    • The first being the button at the button at the bottom of a category with multiple pages of articles. The active button has a green border around it opposed to a transparent border around the circular button.
    • The second would be added the option for the inactive categories to allow the text color to be changed. This already exist for the active category.
    • The third is situational. If you allow in my case more than 9 categories to be viewed before having to scroll the category bubbles no longer follow rules to shrink themselves around the text and the text is always left aligned opposed to center aligned.

> Have a screenshot (please do not include confidential info in your screenshots)?

What would you like the web part behavior (or look) to be?

  • For the button I would like the green to be removed and it changed to transparent so it matches whatever is in the background of the page.
  • For the Inactive text for the categories I would like to have an option to change the color just as we can with the active category.
  • For the categories past the threshold to display on a single line of text I would like to have the text be centered within the space available and ideally have that space scale properly so we don’t have some categories with a large block of empty space around them.

> Have a sketch or a mockup?

  • This mockup is for the top categories with correction on the centering, text being another color for inactive categories and the scaling of the categories.

  • This mockup is for the page buttons at the bottom of each category.

What is the scenario for which you need the suggested new look/behavior?

  • These improvements will help for those that use darker colors in their category buttons as well as will make for a cleaner interface for those that have large amount of categories and news posts.

Hi @Cha01, thank you for the suggestions.
Here are the updates regarding some items you mentioned:

Border around paging:
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We’re not seeing this issue. It could be related to what is on your page. To narrow this down, please add the web part to a blank page with nothing else on it and then gradually start adding other web parts to see what is triggering this.

Category button formatting:
Please use the slider in web part properties to reduce the number of categories displayed at once. This should allow for more space for category buttons to display in a single line with the right arrow as shown below.

Text color for inactive categories
Noted, we added this request to the queue.

Thank you for the updates. For the border around paging I have created a new page and added the webpart to this page and the issue still exist. I am currently using version 2/02/2026. If you are not seeing this issue on your end I will open a support ticket to further investigate.

Hi @cha1 agreed, since we’re not seeing the issue with green square, please open a support request.

Congrats! Additional color swatches you requested have been added. Please reach out to support for an upgrade.
Release notes: 2026 Release Notes