We did not really find a definive solution for the detaching of text-styles issue – and we used the same remedy as you described and reset text-styles manually.
But, what we found out is, that overriding the styling of multiple variants in a variant set at the same time sometimes causes the text styles to be detached, especially when you have components with nested components.
Also, styling the actual variant set container (we often do dotted borders and background colouring) caused text styles of the variants placed within to be detached.
I am not sure if the Figma team made some changes that better the behaviour in the last months, but paying close attention to text-styles when setting up or re-styling variant sets helped us to work around the issue for now.
Cheers,
Markus
I’m having this same issue, is there any solution yet?
I’m having the same issue now and then. it’s frustrating 😕
Yeah I am also having this issue 😦
AHHH FIX THIS PLEASE random detaches are horrible
🫥 fix this please x2, it’s a awful experience
Same thing here. What I was able to identify is that when I manually change position of my text object, the text style get instantly detached. I made a video about it.
Hey @Pedro_Gandra thanks for reporting this. We were able to reproduce this on our end and have a fix ready that should be up soon.
Alright fix should be live now. Just refresh your tab first. 🙂
I just experienced this unprecedented issue after publishing variants to my team library. The text styles were attached when I published them 2 days ago. But today I noticed that the text layers in the base components have the styles attached, while the parent components have text layers with detached styles, not to mention they’ve all gone up in weight. All the text layers were affected! This is bad since there are so many people on my team using our library. No one should have to go back and reattach multiple styles. 😑 See screencap below.
@Josh My team just experienced this issue… components with text styles are detached. How do we resolve it?
I am pretty sure this one is happening again. I can’t figure out what actions are causing it, but all my text styles are getting detached over and over again and it’s very frustrating. The text styles are not local, they’re coming from a published library.
Been having the same issue, very annoying. No idea what triggers it, but what has helped me to quickly match styles again is the plugin called Design Lint, you’ll be able to select all layers with missing styles and match them again all at once.
Thank you for this suggestion! I hope the problem gets fixed.
Still problematic! This makes entire design systems unusable!! No matter if it’s library’ed or local.
Can someone from Figma please actually consider this a priority problem?
Just to illustrate concern since 2021 ~
I have the same problem within the variants.
I was wondering if this was me being sloppy or a Figma issue.
I’m also encountering this even after the fix was deployed. Seems it’s still a running issue.
This has been an issue for quite some time. Is @Figma looking into this? This problem is further aggravated for our developers who normally use the style name to build the text components in code. They keep coming back to us asking what is the text style.
@Figma I don’t want any new features until this is fixed. Please prioritize stability over everything else.
Hey All,
The team is still tracking this issue, but there’s no exact timeline for a fix.
For now, the two workarounds they suggest are:
Manually swapping the dangling/unlinked instance to another instance of the component
Going back into version history, finding a version of the file where the instance is not dangling, restoring that version as a new file, and then copying and pasting the frame with those instances back into the working file
I’ve been having this issue as well. Lots of occurrences lately, not just on variants but also regular frames. I’ve just had almost a whole page get detached – very frustrating.
@dvaliao if there’s any way to push this further up the priority I’m sure many people would appreciate it.
Same here just yesterday my team member realized whenever they select a text layer in a master component it’s doesn’t have text styles applied anymore. It still persist today.
Does having a separate file for styles?
hey @Figma_Support i had the same issue. Texts are detached randomly. It is really annoying in a huge project. Is there a way to solve it?
@Figma_Support this issue keeps happening on a daily bases, not only with textstyles but also components and component variants. Its a huge inconvenience, as when you reattach the component changed content is not kept (eg. changed text/titles etc… )
A work around to find all the detatched textfields etc is to use the plugin Similayer and reattach it to what it is supposed to be.
@Figma_Support While I haven’t noticed this happening randomly, I have noticed that global text styles will detach when copying properties to a parent auto layout frame. I made a separate issue about it here:
I’m having the text style detach issue and this plugin helped make reattaching the global styles much less tedious. Thank you! I hope @Figma_Support has a fix for this soon.
