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Clement_Bettini
Clement_Bettini
June 5, 2021
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Change Properties Variant Order

  • June 5, 2021
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It would be great if we could put the properties in the order we want in the variants.

With drag and drop like layers.

Have a good day 🙂

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    Best answer by Marc30

    OMG I am sooo glad to have found this out! It’s been driving my OCD nuts 🙂 It wasn’t easy to find.

    order-variants

    You have to hover your mouse over that little area on the left to get the hand icon to show up but then you can drag. It might be handy if the UI had the little “grips” visible all the time.

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    Chuck_97
    Chuck_97
    New Member
    June 5, 2025

    For me moving properties order, the icon is not even hidden or tiny, it’s simply inexistant.. 

    claudsisdabest
    claudsisdabest
    New Member
    September 1, 2025

    Where did the functionality go? I really need to sort my properties :( 

    I found this thread for the same reason lol

    Here’s the solution:

    The drag icon for moving properties around only appears when you hover your cursor over it. Hover your cursor in the tiny margin between the property itself and the left hand edge of the toolbar. Your cursor will turn into a hand when you hover over it. From there you can click and drag to your heart’s content :D


    To the devs/designers at Figma: This is not a good design, as its not obvious to newer users that properties can even be rearranged in the first place. Also, with the drag icon being so small, the mouse cursor is big enough to obscure it. The only reason I found it is because I noticed the .05 seconds that my mouse cursor changed into hand when I accidentally hovered over it.

    This is totally insane! I've really tried everything, but how can you see the handle if the cursor completely covers it? 😅 Unfortunately, this really is a very poor user experience.

    Thank you so much, that helps me so much! I would never have found this myself, even though I've tried everything and have been using Figma every day for many years.

    in mine appears sometimes and sometimes not. definetly not to re-arrange Nested instances :(

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