Add text and dividers to forms (and detail pages)

[Kai_Pham1]

i have a pretty long form and wanted to break it up into sections. I tried to just use a canvas text block – which looks fine, but it comes off as a form field and looks weird.

I’m hoping we can one day just have text, like headers and dividers to add to the detail pages and forms. it would really help organize data

here’s my form that looks weird. https://coda.io/form/Onboarding_dajtdmxGNl3

or maybe just allow us to turn off that editable grey field aspect of the canvas when it’s a form

[joost_mineur]

Hello @Kai_Pham1 ,

I agree with your request.
For the time being, with some creativity you can do a few things to make it look a bit better. I use text columns for my ''headers" and sometimes, like in the following example, a left column name.

[Pablo_DV]

I added my vote.

As an additional hack, if you don’t want to showthe labels on the canvas you use as separators you can just copy an unicode empty space character and paste it into the description.

[James_Naylor]

Would also love this! Have you seen Scott Weir’s hack for this btw? It’s not ideal but it lets you use images via a formula rather than text, as you’re doing.

Static text & dividers on external forms

I don’t believe there’s a way to achieve this at the moment, it would be useful to be able to add static headers, descriptions and dividers to external form pages to organise forms, create sections and add context to them. I know we can add per-field descriptions but I’d like to be able to drop in static content in between fields.

[Remco_de_Louw]

Agreed, I sort of solved this by adding columns that contain images and those images are lines or other ways to separate with headers on it… Made them with photoshop.

[Richard_Sillitto]

To to keep this present, I’ve added my vote. I’ve been building a system to manage my work, and I’m very impressed by Coda.

But I am disappointed by the lack of formatting options for the Detail and Form views. These are the crucial views for sharing information, and so their presentation styling is absolutely key to my mind.

I’ve added my vote accordingly!

[James_Naylor]

Still surprised this does not have more votes. Just for keeping things tidy for internal staff, this would be super useful to be able to simply visually break-up the page!

I think the layouts in general could do with an overall.

[AJM]

A lot of us are unable to vote because we “ran out of votes” ages ago. I will never understand coda’s voting limit.

[Shannon_Bradley]

I suggested in my other post that even being able to add borders around the field itself can be game changing!