# Appearing Text Box

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/appearing-text-box/45168>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** design, beginner\
**Created:** [September 5, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/appearing-text-box/45168 "2018-09-05T16:08:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Kathleen\_White](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@Kathleen\_White](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Kathleen_White)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/appearing-text-box/45168/1 "2018-09-05T16:08:13Z")

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Probably a silly question for all you advanced developers, but what blocks would I need to have appearing text.  
Not an alert. For Instance a button titled “Saturday” and when user clicks it, text appears next to it with a recipe.

Thanks to anyone that can help!

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**Author:** ![Rob\_Schoemaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/rob_schoemaker/32/21023_2.png) [@Rob\_Schoemaker](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Rob_Schoemaker)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/appearing-text-box/45168/2 "2018-09-06T07:06:15Z")

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Not sure what you are looking for exactly, but you can just create a label wherever you want the text to appear. In the designer just remove the text from the label and set the text of the label using blocks when a button is pressed. Something like:

![2018-09-06%2009_02_32-Window](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/f/7/f7c73b670f99d7a1481dd46fa9ca7995eb7a10b3.png)

Regards Rob

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**Author:** ![Kathleen\_White](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@Kathleen\_White](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Kathleen_White)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/appearing-text-box/45168/3 "2018-09-09T23:39:50Z")

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Thanks, Rob! My thunkable live was not working when my blocks looked like that ^^^ so I thought i was missing something. Turns out the live app was just a step behind and I jumped the gun. thanks though!

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**Author:** ![Rob\_Schoemaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/rob_schoemaker/32/21023_2.png) [@Rob\_Schoemaker](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Rob_Schoemaker)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/appearing-text-box/45168/4 "2018-09-10T08:23:10Z")

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No problem

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/appearing-text-box/45168/5 "2024-11-08T11:59:45Z")

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