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Components in text

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
August 23, 2023
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Hello,

it would be nice to have the option to insert floating components inside text (like Emojis).

Use case would be for signs or infos in complex dashboards. Its a hustle to do this now manually and also set kind of boundingboxes to sync different heighs of text and component.

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Daniel_Amann

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Hi!
I want to add a text link component within a paragraph of text. I was thinking about using two text fields, one “text before” and one “text after link” and applying the auto-layout wrapping option. Unfortunately the text doesn’t wrap within the text field, but instead the entire text field is pushed into the next line. Are there any workarounds?

Trent

I often have a trailing icon component, ellipsis or “show more” component displayed at the end of text. As requested from several other contributors, I think it would be valuable to have the ability to add a component within a text element so that it adapts to the position of where it is located within the text.

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Iuliia3

Same dilema

Seamus_Leonard2

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100% this would be a fantastic enhancement to Figma. Currently the Auto Layout - Wrap functions like flexbox wrap, which is great for frames.
However when grouping multiple text elements it should behave more like display:inline

Having 2 text styles in a single text block is unreliable and prevents the ability to use text property variants in components.

Kyle_Palermo

+1, we just need “inline” (vs block) components. This is a core feature in CSS layouts but has to be hacked together all crazy in Figma. Allow us to at least mimic a “span” tag with basic features like background color, border, and padding — that would handle 90% of use cases IMO.