# Hide chat widget

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/hide-chat-widget/81958>\
**Category:** Account & Settings\
**Tags:** free\
**Created:** [May 24, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/hide-chat-widget/81958 "2023-05-24T19:09:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![YKurebayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/aca169/32.png) [@YKurebayashi](https://community.hubspot.com/u/YKurebayashi)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/hide-chat-widget/81958/1 "2023-05-24T19:09:22Z")

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I was wondering if theres a way of hiding the chat widget so the Chatbox would be open by a custom button and the widget itself of the messageicon or the X would not be displayed

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**Author:** ![Whathcock](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/whathcock/32/98434_2.png) [@Whathcock](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Whathcock)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/hide-chat-widget/81958/2 "2023-05-24T20:21:31Z")

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Hi @YKurebayashi ,

It looks like this was discussed over on this [thread](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/APIs-Integrations/Start-Chatbot-on-button-click/m-p/348395)and might be possible using the query parameter trigger.

Hope this helps,

Whitney

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