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Stephanie_Smith
November 12, 2021

Add the ability to wrap text around objects

  • November 12, 2021
  • 54 replies
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There’s currently no way to wrap text around an object like an icon, spot illustration, or image.

The only solution is to manually break the copy into 2 text boxes and add the second one underneath the icon.

We had big plans for our design system to include scaled variants of components where text would need to wrap around icons and spot illustrations to save screen space. So not having this feature makes it hard to design for accessibility and see how components will scale. It’s a little tricky to get the line height right, and also means we can’t easily add scaled variants to our existing design system library. It’s also stopping us from creating a plugin where designers could stress test their designs with larger accessible fonts.

Would be great if Figma could add this as a feature.

Has anyone else had this issue? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?

54 replies

Polyprism
New Member
March 17, 2025

Adding another upvote for this - nuts that it isn’t in Figma considering this is *so* easy to do in HTML!

Janice_Tsai
New Member
April 30, 2025

+1 for this! Not being able to have an icon trail text makes our link component a poor representation of behavior. Same with multi-line input labels that are trailed by a “help info” icon.

Bauke_Schildt
Active Member
May 8, 2025

+1 for this! Not being able to have an icon trail text makes our link component a poor representation of behavior. Same with multi-line input labels that are trailed by a “help info” icon.

My hacky solution for this is to have a “Tooltip positioner” element that’s Absolutely Positioned to the bottom right and then position the tooltip by adding right-padding.
 

Recreation of the text component from our library showing how to manually position a tooltip icon at the end of your text.



It doesn’t work with auto-layout, and it’s a lot of manual work every time you change, well, anything, but at least it prevents my fellow designers from using groups and from having to manually get the tooltip component from our Library.

Bauke_Schildt
Active Member
May 8, 2025

PS: +1 for fixing this, Figma… 

Paul_Nattress
New Member
July 18, 2025

Another +1 for fixing this please. I have several hacky workarounds that never work properly for this.

ScottF
New Member
August 12, 2025

Adding my +1 to the mix!

Tien Vi
New Member
August 26, 2025

+1! Can’t believe this topic has been there for 3 years and it’s still not there.

Olivia_Gulin
New Member
September 15, 2025

This would save my life, please add this

Nathan Low
New Member
September 15, 2025

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September 26, 2025

This seems like a no-brainer. Would love to see it. Any idea if it’s on the roadmap?