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Yulia
May 11, 2021
Question

In prototype mode, the hover effect ("while hovering") sticks and does not disappear

  • May 11, 2021
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In prototype mode, the hover effect (“while hovering”) sticks and does not disappear after hovering over an element. As a result, when hovering over several objects, all hover effects remain on the screen. What is the bug? : worried:
Closing and reopening the prototype helps solve the problem.
But after some time, the bug may appear again.
It looks like some kind of memory problem, in general, prototypes and files take a long time to load and sometimes slow down. It’s very unpleasant to work. In Figma via macOS app

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77 replies

djv
Figmate
Community Support
September 13, 2024

Thanks, Ashley!

I can confirm that support received your ticket #1121621 and recently replied to you.

Please check your inbox and continue working with support.

Julia57
Active Member
October 29, 2024

I’m having this issue. @Kolodziej_Ashley did your issue get fixed? Could you share the solution with us? I can’t send my file to Figma support due to company policy.

Kolodziej_Ashley
Active Member
October 30, 2024

There was no solution - they are aware of the issue and there is no timeline due to the complexity of the issue.

Nico17
New Member
November 28, 2024

I’m having this problem now. I thought it was an overlay issue. But the workaround I did was by having my button components inside my local components. I think the issue is with the Published libraries or having the components outside your local ones especially if you have so many components in a project. It’s not a fix tho.

NielsW
New Member
November 28, 2024

I have had the same issue many times already. I can’t believe this is a persistent bug for over 3 years now… Fix this.

Kelly_Ne
New Participant
January 23, 2025

Same issue 👋

And it seems to be getting worse 😩

Would appreciate this getting fixed 🙏

Arsenii
New Member
February 5, 2025

I think i kinda found the solution. To solve this issue you need to replace one «hover» interaction with «mouse enter» and «mouse leave» interactions inside of master component. 

The example below is very simple but this also worked in a much more complex prototype with components added from library
 

Instead of this


 

Do this

 

Chris_Boggs
New Member
February 10, 2025

Still happening in 2025.  Any idea when you’ll actually fix this, Figma?

Josh22
Active Member
March 4, 2025

Going on 4 years with this bug. Seriously affects user testing of prototypes with actual clients. Long lists with hover states regardless if I use while hovering or on mouse enter and leave. 

Also, for anyone trying mouse enter/leave that isn’t a fix. It creates more work and another set of problems if you layer a hover inside another hover (a grid row with background hover and a button inside the row with it’s own hover).

KennLucas
March 4, 2025

Agreed that this is a huge fail that the issues still exists.

 

it also exists when doing mouse enter and mouse leave.

 

but mouse enter/leave is most definitely a much more appropriate way to do do hover states. While hovering is great if you want to show something like a tooltip or popover, literally while hovering.

 

but state changes are absolutely more better when do e with enter/leave. Reasoning is obvious when you read that.


Sad that this issue and many more like it are not addressed

 

you ever try turning off “show dimensions on objects” in the preferences? Next time you open the file that setting is back again. Figma has zero persisting of user choices. Zero! But that is a different soapbox.