# Appearance of items with candidate queries

Note: A Candidate query is not visible to site users until the query is opened.

A Candidate query has the following attributes:

- The Query icon () appears in the far-right column of the page.
- The background color and query text do not change until the query status is changed to Opened by a user with the rights to make that change.

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