# Stopwatch issue - Costume buttons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [April 12, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/stopwatch-issue-costume-buttons/81300 "2025-04-12T10:51:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ohad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f04885/32.png) [@ohad](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ohad)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/stopwatch-issue-costume-buttons/81300/1 "2025-04-12T10:51:47Z")
Hi all! 1. Is there a way to change the labels on the stopwatch buttons or the language? 2. Is it possible to control the stopwatch using custom buttons instead of the built-in stopwatch buttons? CSS maybe? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/stopwatch-issue-costume-buttons/81300/2 "2025-04-12T17:57:33Z")
1. Unfortunately, I never found a way to change the language of this component. 2. You could hide these buttons’ text with custom CSS and cheat by adding `::after` pseudo class and a `content` property. Or, you could make your own timer with AI Component. Here is an example built by @Jeff_Hager : > [@new\_button (Re) Introducing the Stopwatch Component](https://community.glideapps.com/t/re-introducing-the-stopwatch-component/79249/6): > > Here’s my take on it using a custom AI component for a stopwatch, which also includes a countdown timer. There should be only three columns in the table (RowID, JSON, and one experimental to extract duration from the json). The template app seems to be holding on to old columns and I can’t get them to remove when I publish. They aren’t in my copy, but they still exist in the template. Ignore the old unused columns because they were for a previous version of this I did a while back. At this p…