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Bug: When deleting an element, then clicking undo, the element is re-pasted in the wrong place sometimes


Theo_Schreiber

This bug only happens rarely but it keeps occurring nevertheless.

Sometimes when deleting an element and then undoing that deletion (via shortcut or the menu), the element re-appears a few pixels off its original position, and there seems to be no way to tell it to go back to its actual place other than to manually move it there.

Currently, I can consistently recreate the bug with an instance of a button component. This component’s width grows with its content. The original component’s content is the text “Button”; the misbehaving instance has a different text. The amount by which the instance is miss-placed when hitting undo equals the difference of the two texts’ widths.

At least right now, this only happens when the instance’s horizontal constraint is set to “Right” and when it sits inside a frame or section. When placed outside of those (completely alone or inside a group), i.e. when the constraints have no effect, this bug does not occur.

When copy-pasting the buggy instance, the pasted instance also has the quirk. However, when pasting a new instance of the same component and manually adjusting it to equal the buggy instance, this new instance behaves just fine. When selecting “Reset all changes” for the buggy instance (and then changing the text to a different width again), the bug is still there.

The bug happens both in the Figma Desktop App and the web version. I use a 15 " 2017 MacBook Pro (running macOS Ventura, but it also happened on earlier software versions).

Buggy Button Placement
In this GIF you can see how I delete the button and undo the deletion – first with the original text (everything is fine), then with a longer text (the instance is moved to the left) and with a shorter text (the instance is moved to the right).

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5 replies

Gayani_S
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 2111 replies
  • January 29, 2024

Hey Theo, thank you for reaching out and flagging this with us. I’ll investigate internally and come back to you once I get more information on this.


Gayani_S
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 2111 replies
  • January 29, 2024

Update, I’ve created a bug report on your behalf and the team will take a look into this. I was able to recreate this bug as well.


Theo_Schreiber

Great, thank you very much! 🙌


Gayani_S
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 2111 replies
  • February 7, 2024

Hey @Theo_Schreiber, I’ve received an update from the bug report I created. This is a long standing bug. But unfortunately, it is likely not be prioritised in the long term due to the relatively easy manual fix for users.
Appreciate for taking your time to creating this post and to flagging this bug with us!

Thank you,
Gayani.


Theo_Schreiber

Thanks for the info 🥲


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