Skip to main content
Marco_Carvalho
April 6, 2021

Link textboxes in Figma

  • April 6, 2021
  • 55 replies
  • 12368 views

So If text overflows from one, it can show up in another textbox. This would be useful for two-column/grid composition and responsive layouts.

55 replies

Linds
January 30, 2024

Agree. It would be nice to have auto-flow text with multiple-column responsiveness like InDesgin. Also would be nice to have other text formatting features like “Paragraph Space Above” for Headers you want different paragraph spacing to apply to. Just in general, make the Text features like InDesign or half as good, like Photoshop. We need more complex text formatting.

February 4, 2024

Just in case there’s any confusion:
This feature would still be very helpful and very much appreciated 😉

y_toku
Figmate
Community Support
February 5, 2024

Thanks all. I’ll share this internally!

dennsi
Active Member
February 5, 2024

This could be called “Split into columns” or “Span columns”.
Would be really useful and would improve a more responsive oriented experience.
Now, we can only fake this with multiple Frames and if the text needs to flow different we have to adjust multiple frames.

Theodora_Foien
February 18, 2024

I second this. This needs to be a feature in Figma

February 22, 2024

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
March 13, 2024

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.

March 18, 2024

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

April 9, 2024

+1 on this as well

Lucio
April 12, 2024

Indeed. +1 from me too.