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h.rude
April 26, 2021

Allow Hover AND Click together

  • April 26, 2021
  • 137 replies
  • 72025 views

With the interactive components, a variant can now have a tooltip. But unfortunately hover and clickactions are still mutual exclusive.
I’m designing for a desktop application and having a tooltip per inputelement/button is crucial.

137 replies

Dima_Siefier
New Member
February 18, 2025

Component Variants solution: 

 

Lauren29
New Member
April 4, 2025

Kind of embarrassing to explain to my manager that I can’t mock a button with a click and hover state at the same time. Please fix.

Sasssdfasd
New Member
April 7, 2025

Component Variants solution: 

 

The problem with this solution is that you will have your tooltip under near elements if you have no free space around element you are interacting with.
For example tiles view.

But hey. At least we have Dev mode that nobody cares about and UI redesign nobody was asking for.
As if Adobe sent it’s agents to sabotage Figma from inside...

Kateryna_Tolstaia
New Member
April 7, 2025

Such a shame that long standing issues are being shunted aside in favor of features no one asked for.

Zoe_Gomez
Active Member
April 9, 2025

pleaaaaaaase

Lael Breno
New Member
April 23, 2025

I went through the same situation, and I think it's absurd that this discussion is still ongoing after three years. I came to the same conclusions as you did to create this workaround, but I’ll describe my case as well. I needed this button to take me to another frame, which has a button that takes the user back to the original frame. I had set it up with Click > New Frame and While Pressing > Tooltip, but the tooltip blocked the click action from working.
 

Tolltip and Expand Button

 

What I did in another situation was simply place the click action inside a hover interaction. I believe the ideal solution would be to have a proper tooltip component and always add it to the elements that need hover tooltips. Like in this video, but you can also make the tooltip a component: 

Hover Variant w Click interaction

Hope this helps somehow now with UI3. Abraços!

wyk126
New Member
July 22, 2025

Component Variants solution: 

 

Unfortunately this still doesn't work for , it shows error message when interact on it: “Couldn't play interaction: nested instance is swapped with its parent instance” Anyone know what's wrong?

Przemek3
Active Member
August 29, 2025

@Figma 
For all people working on desktop-only projects.
Would you do us a favor and allow to use both hover and click?

Anna Willoughby [External]
New Participant
August 29, 2025

this is still an issue 3 years later.

quick messing around with ai features no one wants and fix this stuff seriously

Caleb Heidel
New Participant
October 2, 2025

Hey! Just adding onto the dogpile… why can’t hover overlay AND click interactions be possible for a single element? I moved over to Figma because I thought my team would be able to do simple things like this. Come on Figma! Please fix this! Just for context, my team and I are currently using FigmaGov.