What did I do and how do I fix it??

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
October 8, 2025
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I’m having a problem with the text tool and how it interacts with the rest of my project. Previously, I would be able to hit “T”, click wherever I want the text, hit escape, and that would be it. Now, when I hover the cursor over a rectangle for example, the cursor has a little curve under it, and when I click, the rectangle just disappears. In the layers side bar, it changes the layer name from “Rectangle 2” to “text on a path.”

I tried restarting the Figma app, but it’s still doing it. I’m really not sure what I did. How do I get it back to normal?

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Nellya

Power Member

This is text on path feature. To prevent the text tool from triggering on your shape, you can temporarily lock the layer.

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Ally AllyAuthor

New Member

@Nellya Is there a way to disable that? Did I somehow enable it to happen every time I want to place text near the edge of a shape? Even after locking the shape layer, it still results in the new text layer being that text on a path layer instead of a normal text layer.

Nellya

Power Member

@Nellya Is there a way to disable that? Did I somehow enable it to happen every time I want to place text near the edge of a shape? Even after locking the shape layer, it still results in the new text layer being that text on a path layer instead of a normal text layer.

I don’t think there is a way to disable this feature. And i don’t quite understand why your text is interacting with the locked shape. I just checked on my end, and i don’t have this issue. Could you record a video demonstrating the behavior?

Nellya

Power Member

Also, you can use frames instead of rectangles to avoid text on path feature

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