Is it not possible to set a text variable to an empty string?

nvm it’s a bug on my end 🤓

Hey! How did you fixed it? I have the same problem 😦

Hello! Which ASCII character are you referring to as ‘’? Right now, I can only set it to a whitespace for the variable to appear as empty (although it isn’t, since it’s a whitespace and has a length of one)

You need to set it to an empty string without any character.

variable = '';

Oh, is that using the API? Or is there a way using the keyboard? Because if the variable is set to a whitespace and I delete it and press intro, the variable resets to the whitespace. Similarly, if I create a new text variable, which by default is set to “String value” and I try to delete that completely and press intro, the variable resets to “String value”

So weird

Only using the Plugin API. I wrote about it here:

Hey, I am not able to do it. Can you explain it a bit more ? How do I set a string’s value as null

You cannot set null as a value for a string variable. Instead of null, you must specify an empty string.

variable.setValueForMode(modeId, '')

Hi, could you share the full code that you added on Run plugin API to set a String variable empty?

const collection = figma.variables.createVariableCollection('New collection'),
    modeId = collection.defaultModeId,
    variable = figma.variables.createVariable('New string variable', collection, 'STRING');

variable.setValueForMode(modeId, '');

This code will create a new collection with a variable with an empty value.