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Alex172
New Participant
April 2, 2025
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Reset specific parts of an instance

  • April 2, 2025
  • 7 replies
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Would be nice to have a feature that allows to reset specific parts of an instance:

 

  • Shadow
  • Background color of a container
  • Border of a container 
  • ...
Best answer by Nellya

You can actually reset some specific properties like fill, text, text style, stroke or effect. Just select the object you need inside the instance and choose the reset option

 

7 replies

john-mainboard
Active Member
April 2, 2025

I’ve reset so many components because I couldn’t reset a specific thing!! It’s frustrating.

I remember a feature like this from Sketch, right? It would literally show you all the overrides and then have a “reset” icon (rewind) to show that you can reset/rewind that override. Otherwise you don’t even know what you can reset. 

Nellya
NellyaAnswer
Power Member
April 2, 2025

You can actually reset some specific properties like fill, text, text style, stroke or effect. Just select the object you need inside the instance and choose the reset option

 

Alex172
Alex172Author
New Participant
April 3, 2025

wow thank you ​@Nellya !!!!

john-mainboard
Active Member
April 25, 2025

I’ve now checked that you also support DEEP element resets, but this isn’t very obvious.

For example:

You create a component with a hidden (opacity:0) colored tag that only appears on hover. When you change the tag color on multiple instances you can’t easily see the sub-frame changes you made in one place, so you have to manually drill down to that sub-frame, e.g. tag color and THEN click the three dots (:) on that menu of the component and the RESET that appears is NOT related to the parent component, but to the currently selected PART of the main component, e.g. the tag color fill color, and then the menu shows that sub-frame as having a fill that can be reset.

This deep sub-frame override is NOT shown at the top level when you do it with the component selected, so I think the entire override mechanism should kind of have a panel showing all the overrides and a reset icon next to each of them to reset and remove them from this override section. 

VickyDNLK
New Member
May 12, 2025

Please create a possibility to reset PADDINGS and spacings! Will save so much time 😇

jameskachan
New Participant
June 10, 2026

I wish they would add “reset specific changes” to the right click menu under “reset instance” so you didn’t have to go up to the overflow menu. 

Or better yet. I’d be fine even with having all specific changes listed without the submenu. Either way it would be a nice quality of life improvement from the the overflow menu in the top corner — that’s super hidden, not very discoverable or obvious. 

This should be in the right click contextual menu as well.

Alex172
Alex172Author
New Participant
June 22, 2026

I have actually noticed that the feature does not always work.
In some cases I am forced to reset the whole instance..