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Carry overlay interactions across pages?

  • June 17, 2025
  • 2 replies
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Marshall1

Bringing this up for visibility.

 

I have a page for “components” and a page for layouts in my design file. These components have many states, so I try to keep things organized by separating project specific variations of key pieces in their own page away from the prototype mockups. 

 

I have a tooltip in these components - on hover it displays another component as an overlay. This works great in the component page - but use that component elsewhere in the file and the overlay doesn’t carry over. I can add the overlay, but have to connect each instance of the tooltip (it’s a quoter, so there’s lots of possible variations) on every variation of my component - which defeats the purpose.

 

It looks like this is something others have asked for:
 

^Like this one if you’re interested.

2 replies

Jan Harold
  • New Member
  • July 1, 2025

I’m actually surprised this isn’t possible yet given the AI development and new products that Figma has been offering lately. Such a let down.


Steve Jon
  • New Member
  • November 27, 2025

That’s a solid suggestion — having overlay interactions carry across pages would make complex prototypes feel much more seamless. It would save a lot of time, especially when you want consistent behavior across multiple screens. I’ve seen similar discussions in other creative communities, like those on mesolyft.com, where people also look for tools that simplify repeated tasks. A feature like this would definitely help keep prototypes cleaner and more realistic.