Hover Tricks for FileMaker Buttons

A couple of demos showing how you can reveal additional text, or even new buttons, when rolling over buttons in FileMaker 13. We used to hide text from some button states by making the text unusually large, but Jason Young showed us a much better method. More in the video below.

Download the “Hover Tricks” example file towards the bottom of our downloads page.

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5 Comments

  • Wicked Cool! Thanks John and Jason. It really shows us the power and simplicity of the CSS in the layouts.

  • SO very clever, Mr. John and Mr. Jason! Thank you for the demo file, too 🙂 ❦

  • steve ssh

    Very clever and very cool, and perfectly explained. Thank you!

    • seedcode

      Thanks Steve!

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