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Allow Hover AND Click together

  • April 26, 2021
  • 136 replies
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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]

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.


Dorian Orozco

I’ve spent hours building detailed prototypes only to hit a wall because this basic functionality is not supported. It undermines my work and makes my prototypes feel almost embarrassing. Given the complaints in this thread and 0 meaningful feedback from Figma, exploring alternatives might actually be less time consuming and cheaper than relying on these “workarounds”. 


001vini
  • New Member
  • January 12, 2026

I did it.


IanM
  • New Member
  • January 19, 2026

But how? ​@001vini 


Michael_Hametner

Why is this still not working in 2026

C’mon Figma!
This can’t be it


Laszlo
  • New Participant
  • February 5, 2026

You can easily add a hover tooltip with variants of a button component and then add a click interaction to an instance of the button. See here:
If you want different tooltips, you need to create a new component for each button (the easy way)
 



Editor:
https://www.figma.com/design/6C3erxivPHqgbRXz6yzsDd/hover-and-click-tooltip?node-id=0-1&p=f&t=bJbYxUx1JQE7zUeE-0


Przemek3
  • Active Member
  • February 9, 2026