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How to change the "Run game" button text in itch.io web games

A topic by Kazoya created Sep 12, 2023 Views: 804 Replies: 5
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I want to change the text from "run game" to something else, I do have custom CSS access and tried a lot of things to change it with no luck, I would highly appreciate it if you can provide working CSS code that I can directly use because I tried the proposed solutions in stack overflow (hiding the button text, then using `content:` with no luck, mostly because of my zero CSS skills and lack of understanding of how custom CSS works in itch.io.
thanks!

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Set a custom noun for your project. The button will change to "run <whatever>".

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Hi! How do you get rid of "run" though?  And how can I change text or "restore"?

Moderator

I don't think you can.

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I think it should be possible using a css trick, hide the element using css, then inside after:: to change the content: of it, I just cant get it to work (to be honest the documentation for custom CSS is not very beginner-friendly) but I think its possible

Edit: and you can change it to whatever you want without changing the custom noun in the settings.

Even if it can be done, it should not be done. Tinkering with essentially the user interface of the itch website framework. If that suddenly misbehaves, people think your site got hacked and create report tickets and stuff.

While custom stuff might sound cool, it is not cool, if it creates problems for the user experience.

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