Thanks @Mustafa_Ahmed1

Figma really needs to add this feature asap.

I posted a request about this 2 years ago. Still not a thing?

That would be a great feature for prototyping and usability testing

Hey Max, thanks for the solution. I have the same problem, but how you add and create the new variable to avoid crashing all inputs simultaneously is a little confusing for me. Can you share your Figma file to get into? 🙏

Figma has been around for awhile now and doesn’t have this yet?!

Here’s a plugin that makes text into input fields with placeholders.

You can also connect what you typed in the input field to a different output field.

Considering how often a text field is used in prototypes to simulate typing, why not make ANY text field automatically typeable?

I’ve used a workaround that involves mapping all characters to a Key interactions but the limitation is we can use delete or space (because Space is used for Figma prototyping functions)

So yea. True input text fields!

Hi @Johnny_Ceron, Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us! I noticed that there was a similar request from other community members. To help centralize the feedback and enhance the discussion, I’ve merged your post here.
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Thank you for your contribution!

As product designer, I use a lot of prototypes that should simulate the user typing (Inputs, Docs, forms etc.) it would be amazing to have the ability to simulate the writing of text as a text animation in prototypes, like the typewriter animation in keynote (maybe even with an option to add a typing cursor)

Please Figma, help us with this! its BASIC! you can do it

I would really like to be able to designate a textfield as “prototype input”, making it editable for a prototype user.

Would be especially powerful if that text field could then be linked to a variable, taking the user input.

This would make prototyping forms a lot more realistic.

Dynamic input in prototypes is crucial when designing components, that relies on what is typed. I wound make prototypes much much useful and fun to use.

We could do some validation in those inputs too, so there is I huge opportunity for creating top notch prototypes for user tesing.

ProtoPie launched a new plugin where you can add text input directly into your Figma prototype! It’s called ‘ProtoPie Genie’ try it out 🙂

Nice work, this inspired me to create a version with the ability to delete character(fully interactive)

I worked on the text field of material design and I was able to put the counter and errors of the min & max characters.

“RTL and LTR Direction”

Thank you for taking a look and commenting if you have any suggestions

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1415572014327904530

Would be a really nice and welcome addition

Adding my appreciation for this feature, would be a really useful too have live text, so that we don’t need to use other apps such as Axure or Protopie.

Any chance we can get a response if atleast its being considered or worked upon? Thanks

Aw man, if I had known I would’ve popped by last week to wish this thread happy birthday! Four years old, what a beautiful preschooler we have. 🎂

To make it relevant, last week I did user testing, and I literally had to rewrite part of the test because one of the forms had a very simple freeform text input that Figma is incapable of doing.

I would rather have Figma give me the interactive input instead of the AI feature that is just meh, to be frank. I fail to understand why this feature is not on top of the list of to do features!

Big up for this feature. I think is a must have if figma want to remain the leader for prototyping tool

RATED as very needed. hopefully before it get’s 5!

Edit: found this very promising abbroach now:
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1262449583289959906

It’s very cool, and I’m so impressed that people are smart enough to build these, but there’s always a catch, like:

• (can only delete all or nothing)
• you can only use lower case letters, space, enter, and backspace

And so while I’m glad it exists, it’s not something I can ever use it in testing; the limitations would be too distracting. It’s gotta be just a regular text input.

While this is great workaround, I think native support from Figma would make it much more better. I mean it’s not something Figma devs have to invent and pull their hair out to figure out how to implement it, because all advanced prototyping tools like Protopie, UXPin, etc, have this feature already!

When will this be a thing?

XD, JustInMind, etc etc etc. So infuriating. They keep shoving AI garbage into the app and refusing to build the stuff WE ACTUALLY NEED.

never, because figma doesn’t care about their users