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Josh_Everingham
New Participant
December 10, 2021

Remove automatic link formatting when pasting email addresses and links

  • December 10, 2021
  • 61 replies
  • 9856 views

i know this has been posted before, but Figma really needs to address this issue. pasting an email address should not just format the existing text as a link with the new text as a destination. when creating prototypes with lots of dummy accounts, or even with real data, copying and pasting lots of emails becomes the hardest part of my day, and there are no key shortcuts either. i have to copy, then right click, paste to replace. or “copy as text.” it’s obnoxious, and frankly i don’t think anyone using Figma has ever needed a functional email link for a prototype, it’s not like we’re creating live products where someone might actually click the email link to send an email.

please fix this Figma, it’s infuriating and breaks the flow of creating prototypes. When basically every prototype i create for work requires a list of users and their contact information, it becomes a daily problem which destroys efficiency. at the very least, allow us to paste them without formatting using cmd+shift+V or something.

61 replies

Yana_Holtseva
New Member
October 24, 2023

Hey! Pls do something with it, very annoying!

Dominic_Scholtis1
November 17, 2023

cmd+shift+v is no solution, because when I copy text with an underlying link from a website (e.g. article headline on a news site), cmd+shift+v does not paste the copied plain text, but instead pastes the last text I copied inside of Figma. cmd+v pastes the actual text I just copied from the website, but with the link.

Jan_Willem_Hoogstraten
New Member
November 24, 2023

A year later, and I’m back at the same topic.

+1

JackieChui
Figmate
Figmate
December 1, 2023

Hi everyone, thanks for all your feedback!
We’ve just pushed an update that allows you to ⌘V paste emails without the link attached.
Sorry it took us a little longer to fix this! Let us know if this addresses your issues!

Steven_Private_Account
January 3, 2024

@JackieChui It’s still not working. I’m trying to replace an existing text with a link text and it just makes the existing text a link.
Maybe do what rich editors does. Mark text, then click the link icon to create a url.

JackieChui
Figmate
Figmate
January 5, 2024

Hi @Steven_Private_Account, the update we launched above only affects email addresses.

You can press ⌘⇧V to paste a link without linkifying the text.

Steven_Private_Account
January 31, 2024

@JackieChui Ok, but why not apply it for links as well? At least then it is consistent with both normal links and e-mail links.

JackieChui
Figmate
Figmate
January 31, 2024

Because we have data suggesting there are more people who rely on pasting links over texts to “linkify” them (e.g. creating clickable links to other files), as opposed to replacing the text with the URL.

Email addresses are an exception because using them as clickable links is not as common - designers typically paste emails as placeholder content inside designs, so we made this recent change to account for that.

February 3, 2024

it doesnt work, ive tried different ways to remove the clickable effect of a email adress all afternoon. How can I have an email say in a resume without it being clickable when i export to pdf?

JackieChui
Figmate
Figmate
February 4, 2024

It appears this is only true when exporting to PDF, and not when you’re editing the text on the canvas.

Thanks for reporting this, I’ll let the team know to see if we can remove the links from PDFs.