# Setting a button's background picture to blank dynamically
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-buttons-background-picture-to-blank-dynamically/1767628
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** button, any-component
**Created:** [March 4, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-buttons-background-picture-to-blank-dynamically/1767628 "2022-03-04T18:08:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-buttons-background-picture-to-blank-dynamically/1767628/1 "2022-03-04T18:08:05Z")
I often use the Any Component blocks to loop through a series of buttons in a screen/row/column (Snap to Place interface) and hide some of them. Unfortunately, changing a button’s “visible” property affects the layout of components next to it (they move over to replace it) so I can’t use that. I want the layout to remain the same but the image itself to disappear. Think of a grid of faces with one missing/blank.
What I typically do is to loop through and change the background picture to “” (empty string). This had been working but I guess a change to the coding now prevents it.
This project demonstrates the issue. If you tap on the button, it should remove the image of the owl: [Thunkable](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/a9978ea644e890f1d1134bd0a41ab4e0)
Does anyone have a suggestion for something else to try until this can be fixed? I thought about making a .png with a single transparent (1% opacity) pixel and replacing the background picture with that but I haven’t tried it yet. **Edit:** That does work as a workaround (project: [Thunkable](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/9b58b2585c35bafa08c6145e4c349d07)).
These blocks work in a web preview but not in Thunkable Live on an iPhone:
Bug reported here: [Setting button's picture to "" using Any Component blocks fails · Issue #1127 · thunkable/thunkable-issues · GitHub](https://github.com/thunkable/thunkable-issues/issues/1127)
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2022, 11:15am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-buttons-background-picture-to-blank-dynamically/1767628/2 "2022-03-05T11:15:10Z")
I tried both your projects and both works in Android. So this thing is again specific to iOS.
However, I created another project (copying yours) and placed the button inside a row and duplicated the row to create 3 rows (all set to **relative size** ).
Now if you click on the middle one, I set visible property to false and other components don’t get effected as they are in separate containers.
[https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/622343d11aadef00124feec9](https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/622343d11aadef00124feec9)
**[Update]**
I tried using the background picture but instead of assigning empty string **“”** or **null** I put a space in the `text block` and it worked. The image disappeared in Android.
Can you try it in iOS?
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-buttons-background-picture-to-blank-dynamically/1767628/3 "2022-03-05T21:32:55Z")
> [@muneer](#):
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> [Thunkable](https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/622343d11aadef00124feec9)
Good idea to place the button in a row and hide the button but keep the row visible. That should work for me.
I can’t open your project by the way:
> Oops! The project you are looking for was either deleted or may not be public.
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-buttons-background-picture-to-blank-dynamically/1767628/4 "2022-03-05T21:36:39Z")
> [@tatiang](#):
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> I can’t open your project by the way:
I’m sorry, I just looked for it and it seems it vanishes. I must have deleted it.
Here is a new one
[https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/6223d7ceb9166b0011284ea3](https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/6223d7ceb9166b0011284ea3)
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-buttons-background-picture-to-blank-dynamically/1767628/5 "2022-03-05T22:37:18Z")
That works, thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-buttons-background-picture-to-blank-dynamically/1767628/6 "2022-06-03T22:38:15Z")
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