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Regression: text style picker search + keyboard controls

  • March 10, 2026
  • 8 replies
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ooolzhas

Feedback 1: since Figma Desktop App version 126.1.2 text styles picker always shows libraries of styles in collapsed state. It’s super annoying, since search doesn’t work until you un-collapse it.

Feedback 2: please fix up/down arrow behavior on styles. Example: the text span has style “Body/Emphasized” → I press arrow up expecting it to switch to “Body/Emphasized” → instead Figma selects “Headline/Regular” (the style that just happened to be below the search box). I papercut myself on this multiple times every day for the past couple of months now, at least.

Figma’s a great product, I love it, but bugs like these are a big let down for me. I believe basic features like text styles should be dogfooded more to remain best in class.

 

 

8 replies

Fabio_Pizzano

The collapsed text styles are SO ANNOYING. Please fix it.


Fabio_Pizzano

The Typography > Text styles popover always shows library styles in a collapsed state. No matter how many times I expand them, they collapse again on each popover open. It’s extremely frustrating and really slows down my workflow. Is there any solution? 

 


Raffaele Fulgente

I’m experiencing the same issue 😩


djv
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • March 24, 2026

Hey All, thanks for flagging this issue! 

I completely understand how this must be slowing down your workflow. I’ve combined a couple of topics into one, so that our team has all of your feedback in one place. 

That said, our team confirmed that it is currently expected for UI Kits to be collapsed. With a bit more context, our team can look into this further.

Can you please confirm if this is happening for all text styles or just the UI Kits that you currently have installed?


ooolzhas
  • Author
  • New Participant
  • April 12, 2026

@djv only to UI kits I have installed.

The bad part is that they’re unsearchable, not that they’re collapsed – why do I have to “uncollapse” it about 50 times a day whenever I look for a very specific named style? It defeats the whole purpose of a search bar.

I have no idea why it’s expected because it wasn’t happening 2-3 months ago.

This is terrible and I will uninstall all external UI kits because they were made unusable and there seems to be no fix in sight.


ooolzhas
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  • New Participant
  • April 12, 2026

@djv Please show this to the team. It’s the single most annoying thing in my 9 years of using Figma.


adamsmasher
Figmate
  • Figmate
  • April 13, 2026

Thanks for your reply, ​@ooolzhas, and thank you for clarifying that it’s only the UI kits you have installed. 

 

I watched the screen recording you attached and can confirm that our team has an accurate description of what you are seeing and will triage and handle this accordingly. While I don’t have an ETA on any changes to this, I greatly appreciate you making the recording so we’re all on the same page.

 

One interesting thing I noted from your video… It looks like it actually completes the search even though the library remains collapsed, so that if you search and then expand it you then see the results of searching. Is that correct? I just want to note if that’s the case, because it might save someone time if they think it didn’t work and delete the search query before expanding.

 

 


ooolzhas
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  • New Participant
  • April 14, 2026

@adamsmasher It’s correct, the search happens, but the result is visible only when you click uncollapse, which is confusing

 

As I said it hasn't been a problem until 2-3 months ago — the results were always there uncollapsed, which makes me think it's an accidental regression