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AidenL
September 2, 2021

Ability to toggle visibility of applied Style without removing it

  • September 2, 2021
  • 14 replies
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I have a Color Style applied as a Fill on an object.

If I want to temporarily toggle that fill, my only option is to ‘Detach Style’ or remove the style entirely. Then I’d have to scroll through my list of styles and find which one was applied to add it again.

Instead, I want to keep the style intact but just temporarily be able to toggle it’s visibility.

When a regular colour is added as a Fill, on the other hand, there is an eye icon to toggle visibility of that fill. It’s helpful to be able to quickly preview how something looks with or without a background, for example.

I feel like this functionality discourages the use of Color Styles, which is counter productive.

Sure, it’s minor, but it’d speed up my workflow and encourage wider adoption of Styles.

Am I overlooking something, or trying to use styles in the wrong way?
Anyone else stumbled on this before?

14 replies

Kalindu_Gunathilake
October 14, 2024

An update has not been done yet but we still would like to have this option. It’s very unpleasant to always detach a variable and apply it again if it suits.

FigmaFred
New Participant
October 17, 2024

I find this also incredibly annoying not to have, especially as I experiment with different styles. We should be able to add styles, toggle them when testing, and delete unused when happy with the design. This is particularly an issue when using design systems with a huge library of styles that you have to search through every time you want to reapply a style

nai200315
November 11, 2024

Я даже не знала о том, что у Figma существует форум по обсуждению функционала. Однако, когда я стала чаще использовать стили в своих проектах, я осознала всю сложность и абсурдность ситуации. Мне, как и неоспоримо, большинству других дизайнеров, просто необходимо иметь функцию для скрытия параметров, заданных стилем. Хотя бы возможность скрыть/отобразить цвет обводки и заливки элемента, когда этот цвет задан стилем

Kalis
New Member
April 10, 2025

Why is this not a feature from beginning?