Ability to resize text control's input box width and height

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Example:

I want to type company’s details inside a “text control” so I can use that text later on in a formula.

But I would also like it to be easily readable without any workarounds so that regular people that come to the doc can see everything that’s written at a glance, or change the text.

The issue is that the text input field cuts out any text longer than 22 characters as seen in the picture below.

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I’m not sure if resizing the field is the right solution, maybe there is a better one for example make it possible to give a name to any block in the canvas so that they can be used in formulas.

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I like the idea here. For your particular use case, a canvas formula wouldn’t work? Formatting would probably be a problem but at least the Description could be read from a normal text control into a canvas formula and get most of what you want.

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Did you mean like this?

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That’s an option, but it makes it hard to edit text, and it’s unintuitive for people not familiar with coda.

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Yes those are good points. Your suggestion is quite valid. There are definitely cases where a larger text box would be desirable.

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Is there any other solution apart from adding form fields??