In building a dashboard (command center, if you will), I have a bunch of buttons and stats. I’d love to make primary buttons BIG, like 2X bigger! It could simply be made to respond to h1, h2, etc…

Okay, with some hacks I managed to do this: [image] Referencing formatted text from cells in a button’s label sorta works. A wild guess it was!

Well, you can add newlines and spaces to the label. [image] Not sure how to make the text larger though, didn’t find any hidden formula for that.

WOAH!!! You’re like a Coda Wizard!!! So cool!! ps. how did you add spaces in the label? Shit+enter doesn’t cut it.

In formula mode, shift+enter works for me. I’m on Windows though, maybe on Mac it’s different.

Awesome, it does work in formula mode. How do you change the color? _Color doesnt’ seem to do anything…

Double-check. Should work, as you can see in my screenshot. More documentation here: [image] A somewhat of a documentation of hidden formulas [Added mechanics of nested buttons] Developers Central Diferent types of color arguments [Back to index] Different hidden formul…

I was wondering where you were getting your hacks from! Awesome as always, thank youu!

@shishir [image] [image] Pedro_Wunderlich: I was wondering where you were getting your hacks from! I’m just trying out different things, and 14 out of 15 times they work exactly as expected. That’s what I love about Coda the most. Guess my full-stack software engineering background helps …

[image] Paul_Danyliuk: I dug into Coda’s source code That’s awesome that Coda has so many hidden layers. What’s yet to be found out, I wonder? Very cool!

[image] shishir: Just when I think I know Coda well… [image] Paul_Danyliuk: … 14 out of 15 times they work exactly as expected… This is precisely the mark of a thoughtfully-designed system; it is capable of new behaviors, the likes of which the developers never anticipated or intended. …

Make buttons in a document BIG!

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Make buttons in a document BIG!

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