# "Touch down" button style limitation

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/touch-down-button-style-limitation/1171703>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [March 17, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/touch-down-button-style-limitation/1171703 "2021-03-17T04:03:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/touch-down-button-style-limitation/1171703/1 "2021-03-17T04:03:00Z")

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I’d like to make a custom effect occur when a button is pressed (touch down). I created and uploaded separate graphics for touch down and touch up. But the built-in touch down effect is interfering with what I want to do. Is there any way to disable that effect?

default touch up:

![Screen Shot 2021-03-16 at 8.59.35 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/5/a/5af32a155e11d24799cfab93012d1ba876fd1d1f.png)

default touch down:

![Screen Shot 2021-03-16 at 8.59.42 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/4/7/47871e7deb89dc3358b21a67db9009be43b1593a.png)

I don’t want the touch down button to have a lighter appearance. I just want to switch background pictures.

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**Author:** ![bader\_mouti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/bader_mouti/32/98887_2.png) [@bader\_mouti](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bader_mouti)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/touch-down-button-style-limitation/1171703/2 "2021-03-17T11:10:16Z")

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I don’t know if that will help you  
But you can use the image like a button

And when the image click change the background  
Photo

And with some shadow it’s will look like a button

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/touch-down-button-style-limitation/1171703/3 "2021-03-17T15:22:42Z")

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Thank you, I might switch to images. I already have the button design as a .png with a drop shadow so that’s an easy thing to test.

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/touch-down-button-style-limitation/1171703/4 "2021-03-17T21:02:06Z")

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Unfortunately, image components don’t have a “touch down” or “touch up” event block. Only a “click” block. And the Any Component event block only has a “click” event.

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/touch-down-button-style-limitation/1171703/5 "2021-03-17T21:10:28Z")

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Feature Request submitted at [Disable default button "touch down" state · Issue #845 · thunkable/thunkable-issues · GitHub](https://github.com/thunkable/thunkable-issues/issues/845)

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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, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/touch-down-button-style-limitation/1171703/6 "2024-11-08T13:25:55Z")

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