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I have card components which use smadows in Light mode, but can I disable them in Dark mode using Variables? Can’t figure it out. Thanks 🙂


Hi @Stanislav_Knopp


I don’t think it’s possible at the moment, but Figma plans to add support for variables in other places soon (some are described on the link bellow). You might need to wait a little bit

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Hi @Stanislav_Knopp,


As Harrol mentioned it is not possible directly, but you can work with boolean properties for variants in combination with boolean variables per mode. Added screenshot for explanation.



@Edwart Thank you very much 🙂


Great solution, unfortunately if you try to nest an instance of that card into another component that relationship gets stripped out.


As long as you don’t nest it - that solution will work 🙂


Maybe this is outdated, but there is what I did.


I have used this method with variables to solve it the light/dark mode. So far it works really well.



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