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Victor_Morales
Victor_Morales
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December 12, 2023

Select which properties to expose on nested component instances

  • December 12, 2023
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Lately I’ve noticed that when I have several nested components, I would only like to be able to modify some and not all. This would allow the component that draws on other components to have efficient adaptability in its contextual use.

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I am setting the variables for the Button component using variables and would not like the size property to be exposed so that the component has a desired behavior based on the active variable.

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    Patrick_Flanagan
    Patrick_Flanagan
    New Participant
    February 5, 2026

    I would also like the ability to re-order the properties of nested instances as well. I have nested components that get to be five or six layers deep, would be great to move the ones that are really needed for my particular component variation to the top for easy access.

    Roman Vert
    Roman Vert
    New Participant
    April 7, 2026

    This is a fundamental gap in how component composition works in Figma today.

    When building higher-level components (organisms) from smaller ones (atoms/molecules), we often need to expose only specific properties — for example, text content or a single state — while keeping other properties fixed to enforce consistent behavior.

    Being able to explicitly select which nested properties are exposed would significantly improve component ergonomics and make design systems much more robust.

    Figma Team, please, turn your eye on this. It’s the right time to finally implement this highly requested feature.

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