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Mango_90
Mango_90
January 25, 2023
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BUG (investigating): Rearranging order of variant properties/text styles in dropdown

  • January 25, 2023
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When I create new variant properties, or new text styles, the newest addition will land at the bottom of the dropdown list in the right hand pane.

Is there a way to reorganise these?

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    Best answer by djv

    Thanks for providing the screen recording, @Alyssa_Maac1!

    I flagged this internally, and it’s actually a long standing bug our team is aware of and trying to fix. I’m going to merge a couple of threads here in the forum together then pass it along to our team for tracking purposes.

    So far, we haven’t been able to consistently reproduce this bug, except for within files that users have sent us directly. If you can send over a bug report with your affected file directly to our technical quality team, it would be a great help: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

    Be sure to use your Figma account email, include a link to your file, and share it with support-share@figma.com, so they can take a closer look.

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    tank666
    tank666
    January 25, 2023

    You can change the order manually using drag and drop.

    To change the order of the properties, select the component set, and then drag the properties you want.

    To change the order of property values, hover over the desired property, when the component set is selected, click on the “Settings” icon, drag the desired values.

    To change the order of the styles, deselect by pressing Esc or by clicking on an empty area of ​​the canvas, and then drag the desired styles.

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    Micah_Sledge
    March 1, 2023

    @tank666 I’ve done this successfully numerous times on text styles within the panel, but there are two styles (H4, H5) that won’t let me reorder them. When I release the mouse button, they just go straight back to the bottom of the list. All the other styles can be moved around as needed just fine. Any ideas?

      tank666
      tank666
      March 1, 2023

      You may have encountered some kind of bug. In this case, you need to contact support.

      Can you share a link to an example file?

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      Micah_Sledge
      March 1, 2023

      @tank666 just figured it out (kind of). Turns out it was less related to the styles I was attempting to move and more where I was trying to move them. Apparently one of the styles wouldn’t allow me to move something beside it. But by juggling the styles around with some trial and error I was able to get things set the way I wanted.

      I do think it’s a bug, but it’s no longer blocking me.

      IServ_Isik
      IServ_Isik
      April 3, 2023

      Got the same bug. It’s definitely not user error. I use Figma on a daily basis since release. It even moves the style to the desired place and then moves it back a second later, lol

        Maxim_Siebert
        Maxim_Siebert
        June 9, 2023

        Happens for me pretty consistently still:

        Jun-09-2023 15-54-07

          Daniel_Cullinan
          Daniel_Cullinan
          Active Member
          July 6, 2023

          Same problem for me. This used to work fine, but now it’s hit and miss.

            Julia_Shlyapnikova
            Julia_Shlyapnikova
            Active Member
            October 17, 2023

            Same for me. It was not like that before

              Joakim_Melkersson
              Joakim_Melkersson
              October 23, 2023

              Still broken. Some color styles can be dragged to a new position, others just jump back to where they were. No difference in how these styles are organized or named, it seems completely random.

                Stefan_Brigola
                Stefan_Brigola
                November 10, 2023

                Hi all, I already discorvered this a long time ago but now I thought I have to ask. If I want to reorder styles in the list from bottom to top – it´s not possible. It always jumps back to bottom. If I do it the opposite it works, from top to bottom. But if you have lot a lot of styles it´s annoying to do so. Anyone else experienced this?

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