# Change the "Submit" button

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/change-the-submit-button/61048>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [April 27, 2023, 8:48am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/change-the-submit-button/61048 "2023-04-27T08:48:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![fkuk1214](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@fkuk1214](https://community.glideapps.com/u/fkuk1214)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 8:48am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/change-the-submit-button/61048/1 "2023-04-27T08:48:52Z")

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I am making a messaging app.

![Screenshot 2023-04-27 at 9.44.51 am](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/a/9/a9d6c905f33789df5736c536f26acb6038836a0f.png)

But, I want to change the text of the Submit button to “Send”.

How do I do that? Is there a CSS code or something?

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**Author:** ![Trustin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/trustin/32/88217_2.png) [@Trustin](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Trustin)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/change-the-submit-button/61048/2 "2023-04-27T13:11:58Z")

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You can create a new screen with form components and add a button with customised text.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/change-the-submit-button/61048/3 "2023-04-27T23:43:57Z")

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What Trustin described above is what we call “custom form” here.

> [@How do I create a custom form?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-i-create-a-custom-form/25014):
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> I’m just dropping this here so I have something to refer people to when they ask. This is a simple concept app (copyable), that demonstrates the following techniques: Building custom forms for adding and editing list items (as an alternative to the native forms provided by Glide) Preventing duplicate new entries using [User Specific Columns](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/user-specific-columns) and [Relations](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/computed-columns/relation-column) Enforcing mandatory input items The use of visibility conditions and user specific booleans to control user flow There is nothing particula…

Please take into account that it would eat more into your updates quota.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_hien](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/michael_hien/32/18864_2.png) [@Michael\_hien](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Michael_hien)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/change-the-submit-button/61048/4 "2023-09-30T18:12:32Z")

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Is there any follow up for this? Now that there are CSS?

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/change-the-submit-button/61048/5 "2023-10-01T01:58:42Z")

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I doubt we have a good way to do it. As far as I aware, CSS can only be used to alter the styling of elements, not the “textual” context of it, with the button text being an example.

There might be a way using something like hiding the original text, then use ::before or ::after to add the text you want into that same space, but I don’t know if it would work on different devices.