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Blindemboss
March 9, 2022

Flush left align bulleted text

  • March 9, 2022
  • 9 replies
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Every time I use bulleted text, the actual bullet point is a slightly indented and doesn’t perfectly align with the left margin.

Are there any additional way to have greater control text indentation and control hanging bullets? Plug-ins?

Thanks.

9 replies

Nelson
March 9, 2022

Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s a way to adjust text indentation of bulleted lists to make them flush to the left edge of the text frame.

One possible workaround is to not use bulleted lists and just type (or copy/paste) the bullet symbol…

• And make the list manually
• So it’ll stay flush left

Joe_Garlick
Active Member
May 19, 2024

I find it ridiculous you can’t set the indentation sizes in 2024! You could set these in InDesign 20 years ago. Especially annoying when you are using them in a limited space, the design will not look like how it is built. This feature is so underbaked.

djv
Figmate
Community Support
May 21, 2024

Hey @Joe_Garlick, thanks for the feedback!

This topic is from a few years ago, but I’ve updated it to a feature request to allow the community to vote for this capability. As we gain more interest, we’ll pass this onto our team for future consideration.

Joe_Garlick
Active Member
May 21, 2024

Thank you!

Drea
New Member
February 28, 2025

has this been resolved?

Sean Gallagher
New Member
April 17, 2025

Hey @Joe_Garlick, thanks for the feedback!

This topic is from a few years ago, but I’ve updated it to a feature request to allow the community to vote for this capability. As we gain more interest, we’ll pass this onto our team for future consideration.

There is no need to “vote” for this.

This is a default standard in every app, even trash-boat ms word.

It’s an HTML / CSS standard reset and obvious use case in Front End design to define stylesheets.

It’s also an ever present annoyance in using this app.

It’s also 2025.

How many more billions does figma shareholder value / the ceo need to move a bullet around / not hijack my text when I manually type in bullet symbols? 

 

Thanks,

Every person ever

Rob_StormStudioNZ
New Member
October 9, 2025

Has Figma fixed this yet? Just like Blindemboss 3 years ago ….., I want my bullet points to align with the margin and not be indented. Figma engineers — when will you resolve this? .. or if you have please help.

Anthony Hamill
New Member
April 3, 2026

C’mon Figma devs, let’s get this fixed. We shouldn’t need to convert every list to a flexible layout in order to do something that is extremely common in web.

AParentMMS
New Member
September 21, 2026

Adjusting bullet alignment to the margin should be possible, but also sometimes you want to indent text MORE, without creating a separate block. Nested bullets, blockquotes, etc. Text styles should be more detailed.