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Aurelien_Barbier
Aurelien_Barbier
May 23, 2022
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Rules of text truncate

  • May 23, 2022
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Hello !
I and my team we are searching for information about the new function to automatically truncate text. Do you know how it works ? What is the rules of truncating ? Because we made some tests and we don’t understant how it works actually 🙂

Thanks in advance,

Have a nice day ☀️

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    carlhauser
    carlhauser
    May 26, 2022

    Hey Aurelien,

    Make sure your text has a fixed height (cuts it off horizontally) or is set to fill content when using auto layout, otherwise figma does not know where to cut off your text and turns “truncate” off. (you need to turn it on again, might be one confusing point) If you are not using auto-layout and just constraints you can set your text to for example left and right and top and bottom in the constraints menu to make truncating work.

    Have a great day

      Gabriele_Malaspina
      Gabriele_Malaspina
      May 26, 2022

      I think @Aurelien_Barbier is referring to the rule behind the truncation feature. It’s pretty weird, sometimes it advances by one character, at other times by four. 🤔

      CleanShot 2022-05-24 at 13.33.37

        Gabriel_Mejia
        Gabriel_Mejia
        May 26, 2022

        You are right, rule behind truncation is really weird, I sometimes need only a few characters …but it truncates a complete word…

        cc @Figma_Support

          carlhauser
          carlhauser
          May 27, 2022

          oh got it! This is also something I would like to know 🤔

          Aurelien_Barbier
          Aurelien_BarbierAuthor
          May 27, 2022

          Yes it’s more about the rule behin truncation, not how to activate it 🙂
          Thanks for your answers !

            AllieJ
            AllieJ
            January 12, 2023

            I’m also having this issue, sometimes it truncates in the middle of the word (what I want) and other times it will only truncate at the end of a word, leaving extra space rather than filling the whole frame.

              Santiago_Mansilla
              Santiago_Mansilla
              April 19, 2023

              It would be useful to set if you want to truncate the text by word, by character, or by syllable! I need this

                THNDRX
                THNDRX
                September 6, 2023

                Yeah it’s very annoying sometimes that complete words are truncated out! We need more control over this

                Michal_Swiaczkowski
                Michal_Swiaczkowski
                New Member
                January 29, 2024

                Any update on that?

                Figmate
                Junko3
                Figmate
                January 30, 2024

                Hi All, Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

                After checking internally about the text truncation rules, we expect that the ICU word break rules will be applied.

                If you’re experiencing something different, would you mind ‌reaching out to our support team here?: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360001744374
                Please be sure to use the email associated with your Figma account, and include the video of the issue you are facing.
                This way, our team can go ahead and pass this along to our engineers so they can help us look into this further.

                Thanks all for your help here!

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