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Link textboxes in Figma


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Yes, I’m just trying out Figma (usually use Adobe illustrator) and one of the first features I’ve found that makes Figma less useful to me is there’s no way to wrap text between text boxes, to create columns.
There’s a columns plugin, but it doesn’t wrap the text into the adjacent text box when re-sizing the frame.


Chris_St.Cyr

Yes. This would be useful when designing longform web articles that have long columns of text broken up with entry points like pull-quotes, images, video, and other content.


+1 on this one! Much needed, especially for digital PDF an presentation designs.


+1 on this as well


Lucio
  • April 12, 2024

Indeed. +1 from me too.


tomjonesrocks

Another vote for this…


Please add this feature! Would save me so much time. I was going to do my project in Figma but now will have to go back to inDesign.


Joey_Newton

Please add


+1!!! I am tired of making ebooks in inDesign.


Tim_Eliot

@Figma this seems like a pretty easy feature to get done in a sprint or two and it would open you to a whole other crowed from InDesign that want to be creating eBooks and other PDF artifacts but don’t come to Figma because there is no text threading


Bas_Poppink1

Just keeping this alive. I’d rather have simple and extremely useful things like this than AI, which is blocked in my company anyway…


Nick_DeMaison

I found this thread while trying to figure out if I should convince a collaborator to move from InDesign to Figma. If text wrapping between text boxes is not possible, we’ll be sticking with InDesign.


BriceT
  • September 16, 2024

Pleas please please please


Clement12

Please it will be very helpful


Anna99
  • October 1, 2024

Please take a note from Star Trek NTG and make it so!
It would make layouts much easier and it’s a simple tool to add. There’s space already in the text menu box. Just add a teeny link icon and when you hover over it, it’ll say that clicking on this links together selected text boxes. Done!


todd7
  • October 2, 2024

Another vote for this. This feature alone would get me using Figma much, much more.


Jess_Maher

Another vote for linking textboxes!


Michele12
  • New Member
  • December 10, 2024

Hey Figma, how about this feature? Any news? Community what can we do for this to become a thing?


nynke.brandsma

Yes please! absolutely necessary


Lexy_DeRosa1

Adding in my vote!  Please add this feature! Looking for reasons similar to what people have already said:

Quick one-pagers, ebooks, etc.

CSS column design with text (to make it easier for copywriters to manage their content)


Michele12
  • New Member
  • February 12, 2025

Figma, any updates on this one? The community needs this feature. Is kind of embarrassing is not there yet. 


Pilar3
  • New Member
  • February 13, 2025

Adding my comment to this so that the gods of Figma listen to our prayers! This would be so useful.


Aquarius
  • New Member
  • March 8, 2025

absolutely necessary


Michele12
  • New Member
  • March 11, 2025

Figma please wake up. We need this and as well hypernation on text


Jonas Pacheco

this would be a killer feature. the thread started years ago, please, just do it already.


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