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Lately, I keep running into this issue where components with absolute positions move around on their own. It’s super annoying. Any ideas on how to deal with it?

hello! my grid looks like this, uneven. I can’t set it to 8px. I do not know how to fix it. I closed and reopened Figma but it didn’t solve it. I need help. thanks

As everyone knows, when the layer names of icons are exactly the same, the color can be retained when switching icons. When I replace Icon 1 in the example with Icon 2, Icon 2 will inherit the color of Icon 1 on the button. Similarly, if I combine these three icons into one, the color will still be retained when switching between states. However, when I use Variables to control changes in the icon shape, the color will not be inherited. This is quite frustrating for me. Why is it that when switching variants through variables, the color is no longer inherited? I would like a reasonable explanation.

When typing an ascii character code (é, ü, ñ, ô etc.) into a board, it automatically backspaces the previous character. ???

Having issues with team library. Created a component in design system file and it is not reflecting in the assets.

I want to generate my code for VS Code using React, Tailwind, Typescript based on web design provided from my Designer. According to my research, I understand that I might need pricing plans for tools like Frontier, FigmatoCode, Locofy and as well Figma Dev. Can you guide and advice what I necessarily need to purchase in order to boost my work. I have to do more than 200 ui flows, and in the future, possibly more. Without those tools, I will perform more long. Should I by Figma paid subsription or Frontier, FigmatoCode, or both of them?

Cant figure out how to delete objects on browser, app only lets me make figjams not actual projects. Does Figma just like pretending its functional for ipads?

Quick feedback on this stroke width input: It’s quite narrow are hard to click into (the righthand side of the input is reserved for variable selection). Can you make this a bit wider?

Hey all, I noticed there have been several instances where 2 style attributes are applied to the same tag in an exported SVG. Mainly this happens on non-outlined text tags with style="white-space:pre". It also happens with mix blend modes. As you may know, this is noncompliant HTML per the spec: " There must never be two or more attributes on the same start tag whose names are an ASCII case-insensitive match for each other." Would be great to have this fixed as it creates extra time spent fixing these issues after export.

I’m really frustrated to see that a payment for 10 seats of Figma was deducted from my account without my approval. I did not intend to make this purchase, and there was absolutely no authorization from my side for this charge. I demand an immediate refund for this unauthorized transaction and request that you cancel the subscription immediately. Also, remove my card details from your system. I only purchased a single seat, yet I was wrongly charged for 10 seats last month. This is completely unacceptable, especially since my card is not supposed to be saved with you. How did this even happen? I have already sent an email about this issue but have not received any response. I expect a prompt resolution to this matter. Thank you for addressing this issue as soon as possible.

This is a somewhat complex issue but I’m going to explain it as simply as possible. A library has been shared with me, but since I am outside of that organization I’m not able to utilize any of the library’s components (due to Figma’s limitations on cross-organization sharing). I have copied the library and published it within my own organization but certain items are not identified as components that I am able to use in other files. These items are marked as child components (open diamond) and I don’t have acces to the master component (error of “You don’t have access to this file” when I click the “Go to main component” option). For most of these items, in the right-click menu when the item is selected, I can choose the “Create component” option that essentially creates a new master. However, if the item has a complex variant setup it wipes all of those settings clean. Is there any option to preserve the variants when creating a component from these items?

I have these 5 food groups and when I start making vegetables link it makes the whole group a link to vegetables but I want only 1 segment to link for vegetable another for fruits and etc

When I start an open session in FigJam and share the link, another user follows the link on iPad, but is required to login/signup instead of just join the session. Happens only with the iPad app. How can it be fixed?

I want to be able to draw a new shape directly within an existing mask group. So far the only way to do this is to draw the shape and drag its layer down into the mask group. Is there a better way to do this? It’s very frustrating if you have tons of layers and the mask group is somewhere in the middle of it all.

I have created an animated component, composed of 5 variants (see screenshot). Each variant animate on a delay and a ‘Smart animation’. I have placed a few instances of that Component in a single Frame and modified the delay amount of the instances. When I launch the prototype on desktop, it works perfectly fine, but when I open the same animation on my Android (Browser: Chrome), it doesn’t animate at all. This is it (click on launch): https://www.figma.com/proto/NQwuTvrmmcqGHaZztdTdKY/BrightLight?page-id=1%3A920&type=design&node-id=217-1086&viewport=103%2C-828%2C0.59&t=xxgyXDWKzjomSIWA-1&scaling=scale-down&starting-point-node-id=217%3A1086&mode=design Can anyone help? 🙂

So! I keep running into a problem where my animations instead of playing in preview mode the viewport jumps to the top of the page for a breif second then back to where i was… missing the animation and just seeing the end result. Please someone tell me this is just a human error and i can resolve it 🙂

Hello Figma Advocates, Can you please explain if this can be done actually? I have shared an image to explain my problem. There are 2 conditions: 1 - Artboard size 546, Auto-layout direction - Horizontal 2 - Artboard size 328, Auto-layout direction - Vertical I want to resize the artboard from 546 to 328 and the Auto-layout direction automatically changes from Horizontal to Vertical. Is there any way to do that? Or am I just dreaming? Please comment. Thanks Amit

Hi Figma team, i think i spotted a bug, i’m attaching a file :Figma – 2 Oct 24 the layer “test-group” is a group and nodenode.type returns FRAME for this. It’s quite random, by playing around and toggling between FRAME and GROUP, i’ve seen the bug disapear then reappear, hopefully, you can reproduce it. I couldn’t find my Figma version (i’m using the desktop version on windows), i think it’s fairly recent, i remember updating about 2 weeks ago, let me know how to find it if you need the precise version number. Best

Hello all, I wonder if it is possible at all to create some sort of drag & drop prototype? I have tried using drag+ Push (up) and Smart animating layers but none really create a ‘‘drag’’ feel, its all just a click or while dragging, it does not follow a users’ mouse/finger point…I attached a image of what I would like to achieve, but no idea how, if at all 🙂 Any tips or ideas are welcome!

I am right clicking on an layer to move it to another page but the option is not showing on the menu. I am working on the web browser on Chrome 128.0. Looking forward for you help and comments 🤗

Please restore these files They were available just yesterday. can we do it as soon as possible? Figma – 21 Oct 24

am working with a design system, using its components across several design files to create layouts. Since yesterday, I’ve encountered an issue where components in my design files display incorrect properties—specifically, they have an incorrect horizontal flow and size in auto layout. When I click on the text layer of a component, it corrects itself, displaying the right size and adjusting to the layout (filling the container as expected). The main problem is that each user has to manually click on the text layer of each component to make it display correctly. Even after I adjust a component, my colleagues still experience the same issue in their layouts and have to click on the text layer themselves to apply the auto-layout adjustment. Is it some intern bug with our design system or some current Figma bug?

Hello I just made an animation for my web design and I want to know how to add a navigation bar that appear in the top of the page and when scrolling get it fixed in the top all the time. I have to precise that I have 2 diferent nav bars, the default when it’s the top when the page apperas and a second one with a background and a shadow below (this one I want to get when scrolling). I tried many things with the help of youtube videos but didn’t get it exactly as I want. Thanks

Hello! I am trying to use the Figma agent to install fonts on my computer to later see them on the browser. I am not able to use the desktop app because my operating system is too old. I only can use Figma on browser. My question then is: What is the minimum operating system to use this Figma font installer? Thank you very much in advance for your replies 🤗

When I transition an element off frame, it leaves a temporary shadow, as in it fades out, from where it originated from, any ideas how to remove this? There’s 100% opacity set to both elements in each frame.