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Jackson_Latka
March 11, 2021
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Cursor Pointer Hand on Hover

  • March 11, 2021
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When presenting interactive components with a hover state, the cursor sometimes shows the pointer hand on hover and other times does not. Curious if I’m experiencing a bug or missing a setting. Thanks!

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16 replies

Ricardo_Zea
New Member
April 9, 2023

I know I’m late to the party, but here’s my solution to this: add an “Active” state to your button/interactive component. 🤷‍♂️t4:

July 20, 2023

This has never happened to me until yesterday so I am here 🙂 . I believe that it is a bug, hand cursor appears only for a second on a certain location of the component only to disappear again. This is annoying, Figma needs to fix this.

July 20, 2023

None of the solutions above work, my old prototypes that worked perfectly lost the hand cursor on all the clickable items, Changing the cursor type of your windows or mac is not that useful since we have to share the prototypes with the stakeholders, developers and the other teams 😃 And they will view it with their own cursor settings.

Rachel_Kepp
September 23, 2024

I have the same issues. My cursor doesn’t change to the hand on hover. Has anyone found a fix for this?

Saad Suleman
New Member
February 13, 2025

One simple trick I use to achieve a "hand cursor" on hover is to create a link out of the text element and then remove the underline by setting text-decoration to none or simply pressing Ctrl + U (on Windows). This way, the text retains its appearance while displaying the hand cursor on hover.

For non-text elements like frames, objects, or images, you can add an "On Click" interaction along with a "While Hovering" interaction. Set the action to "Open Link", then enter an invalid URL or just add spaces in the URL input. This forces the cursor to change to a hand icon when hovering over non-text elements.

It may seem like a bit of a workaround for something so minor, but hey—it gets the job done! 😇😉

Kyle_Eberle1
New Participant
June 6, 2025

Thanks ​@Saad Suleman for the great tip!
Just what I needed. Cheers! 🍻