Application Builder Design....Quirks

As I am building my app, I have encountered several design setbacks I would like to address. I hope that these oddities will be fixed in the future.

1. Adding text
When typing out text, I have discovered that when I accidentally or purposefully type a \, everything that has been typed in the box is suddenly completely erased. This has made me cry on several occasions. The following error message is what appears when typing a \. Typing a / does nothing but inserts a / into your text. :+1:
Also, sometimes hitting backspace erases everything too. :sob:

2. Text Input (for forms)
When adding single-line text placeholders, the text is faded and looks nice. However, when adding a multiline placeholder, the text does not follow the same color scheme/theme. See images below.
Single-line placeholder. Looks nice!

3. Radio buttons and check boxes
I had previously posted on this before, but I figured I would include it in this post. The check boxes and radio button borders cannot be changed and do not match the set designs. I have tested everything in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Previous post can be found here: Can you change the color of radio buttons?

4. Markdown
I have noticed that a lot of typical markdown does not work. I am hoping the markdown commands will expand in the future. In the mean time, I have noticed a few oddities.
Markdown links become smaller than the designated text size.
smol text is smol.

When adding a bulleted list, the text becomes smaller and does not follow the designated color scheme.
Screenshot 2025-05-09 221944

5. The “Show More” button on the repeat element
The button is too close to the element and cannot be edited?
Screenshot 2025-04-29 160027

It would also be nice if we could hide the “show more” button and only show…say 10 repetitions.

That’s all for now?

Bonus feature request:
Ability to add an anchor link to scroll to a designated part of the page. I tested with an “iframe element” but I couldn’t get it to work, unfortunately.

Thanks for reporting all of these quirks, it’s really helpfull. We’ll try to fix most of them for the next release but probably not all yet unfortunately.

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Hi @Iokaar

The following have been fixed and should be included in the next release:

  • The markdown content matches the theme
  • The placeholder for textarea also matches the style
  • There is a little space before the repeat element button
  • When you add a \ in a formula field it still fails, but at least it doesn’t delete the whole value

Further improvements to handle \ gracefully is tracked in this issue: Entering the `\` character (backslash) in a formula field causes the entire text to be deleted (#3626) · Issues · Baserow / baserow · GitLab

I’ve also logged a feature request for adding an anchor link: Add ability to link to a section or part of the page using an anchor (#3627) · Issues · Baserow / baserow · GitLab

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