šŸ†• Glide Pages (Beta)

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Did anyone of the experts here try to add CSS?
would be grate to have something similar to this for pages:

I really want to custom a photo for background.
Hopefully in the future it will be a native feature.

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I havenā€™t touched Pages that much. Do you only want just the background, and does the current code not work?

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Yes, It looks like its ignoring all CSS
I think Rich Text is only for text nowā€¦ ?

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@Lin_Altshuler check this one and try :blush:

<div style="position: fixed; top:0px; left: 0%; z-index:-1;" target="_blank">
<img class="back_image" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/glide-prod.appspot.com/uploads-v2/EDxaxHAZKfbYKIyjmIus/pub/9Iaue2czbsl7ssKsKXOS.jpg">
    <pre><span><style>
    .back_image{
    width: max(120%, 40vw);
    }
    .jiuuwu svg {
    display: none;
    }
    [data-test="glide-app-bar"]
    {display: none}

I found this one on Code Book. But I didnā€™t try this :slightly_smiling_face:

Thank you

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188

I just tried and it deffo feels that way, the code is now stucked inside its own ā€œblockā€ and canā€™t affect any other components. Of course, this is not officially supported and it is what it is.

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189

well, that a bummer.
Iā€™m canceling my pro purchase :frowning:

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Welp, Iā€™m sorry to hear that, but have to reiterate that CSS has never been supported for any Glide products.

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191

I understand that.
But I build apps in Hebrew and until RTL is supported I cant do anything without CSS.
I really hope that Glide doesnā€™t decide one bright day to change Rich Text for the regular apps too.
that would destroy my businessā€¦

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Youā€™re taking a risk building a business on a feature that officially and unequivocally is not supported by Glide. As long as you measure the risk ā€¦

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193

Indeed, but anyway with the smartphone you can access to the website, and maybe for some reason you may need the barcode.
I wouldnā€™t deprive the .page from what is already available on the. application side.
Actually in the .application side we should also add some of the .page feature, like the container.

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I am not doing anything fancy, all I do is adjust everything to RTL.
I see Glide as a company that wants to grow Internationally and not stay local in the US.
We have YC for date formats, we have auto translation for browser language, but we donā€™t have RTL.
Taking down a feature that supports basic functionality before building a native solution and giving a heads up enough time to adjust is something I donā€™t expect them to do.

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I think that as long as youā€™re addressing stable class names, then youā€™re generally pretty safe with custom CSS/HTML. I use quite a bit of both in my apps, and Iā€™m yet to have any nasty surprises.

As far as the official Glide position on this goes, my reading of that is ā€œif you do crazy stuff with CSS and it breaks your app, then donā€™t expect us to fix that for youā€. And I believe thatā€™s fair enough. Do it at your own risk.

As time progresses, my expectation is that Glide will continue to provide more and more configuration and customisation options, and the need for custom CSS will be reduced. I think this topic is good evidence of that. Itā€™s also not that long ago that we were using custom CSS to create floating buttons. Now itā€™s a standard feature.

As far as RTL support goes, I have no idea if itā€™s on the road map, but I do know that many people have asked for it. So Iā€™m sure that the Glide team are aware that there is a demand.

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196

Having another play with Pages recently and itā€™s a bit underwhelming compared with Apps, mainly because I canā€™t see the purpose of it but also because, rightly or wrongly, I am measuring it against this:

It only supports Airtable for now.

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In what ways do you prefer Softr to Glide Pages?

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Putting the Airtable reliance aside, thereā€™s quite a lot to admire with Softr. The page design tools, the SEO aspects, the membership & payments feature is next level, ability to create customer portals etc.

My perspective on Pages is somewhat tainted by my hope that it will be the desktop version of an app, but I suspect that is not the plan going forward.

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What do you suspect the plan is?

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If itā€™s not going to be the desktop view of an app, then I suspect the plan is to offer something along the lines of Softr.

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Softr has some great features for building a client portal. It looks great and itā€™s relatively easy to use. The support is good, the community is knowledgable, even the pricing kinda works. But, and itā€™s quite a big but, right now it really canā€™t compare to Glide in terms of data manipulation. Glide is so strong in this respect and therefore allows so much flexibility for the ā€œbuilderā€. This in turn provides the ability to address a really wide range of solution requirements. Nonetheless, Softr is one to watch if you need to build a portal of some form.

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Absolutely agree with you on Glideā€™s strengths but that doesnā€™t stop me feeling underwhelmed by Pages. Hard to judge, I know, as the product isnā€™t complete it seems.

What I particularly like about Softr is the client portal and paid memberships as my Glide Pro app is a listings directory. For me this is the killer feature that Glide doesnā€™t have.

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Yeah, through building one a few weeks ago I absolutely agree with this. However, their design is really great and I hope they will improve more in the near future.

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