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Sonia14
New Participant
April 16, 2024

Disable the feature that suggests number variables in Figma

  • April 16, 2024
  • 11 replies
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I’ve been using the Number variable feature in Figma to specify margin values, applying it only to the areas corresponding to the margins within the layout.

For the auto layout’s gaps, which don’t correspond to margins, I’ve been manually inputting numbers instead of applying Number variables. However, in dev mode, I’ve noticed that the suggested variable usage based on the value automatically proposes the closest Number variable value, which is then reflected in the code (you can also see the ‘Suggested variable usage based on the value’ tooltip).

Due to this suggestion feature, using Number variables has become quite inconvenient for me. I believe there should be an option to disable the Number variable suggestion feature.


11 replies

June 14, 2024

Facing the similar issue here. Developers who I worked with were really confused at beginning.

Brendan_Murphy
New Participant
July 18, 2024

Very annoying, please let us turn this off!

Laura_Freeman
August 20, 2024

Please let us turn this feature off. It’s causing confusion and making dev hand-off more difficult.

djv
Figmate
Community Support
August 20, 2024

Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this onto the team for future improvement.

Andrea_Bichsel2
New Member
August 21, 2024

Exactly. We need this!

Nicolasfol
August 21, 2024

We need to turn this feature off. This is super problematic for us. Please Figma Fix sugested Variables.

Martin_David1
August 29, 2024

Gotta pile on this one. So confusing. We have devs that are junior and designers who, well…

Example I just ran into: Designer gave flex a 24px gap. It suggested button-border-radius. Radius and Gap are very different and makes it easier (hopefully) to realize it may not be real. But a confusion with margin - maybe not - who knows. Only the little info icon knows for certain.

Luke35
September 10, 2024

I’m struggling with the same problem. If it’s ever been used somewhere else, it’s constantly sugared. Finding and erasing it is also work.

Teddy
New Member
September 12, 2024

This is causing confusion for our devs as well. We have not released any variables and none are active in the file so does Figma just suggest randomly? Flashbacks to the U2 album randomly appearing on my iPod.

Slava_Bronevitskiy
Active Member
September 28, 2024

What the fact is Figma doing with this feature?

It harms our architecture. Some developers are actually copy-pasting this nonsense and it ends up in production 😨

DISABLE and preferably REMOVE this feature forever please.

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