Setting to turn off automated lists

This is still seriously needed!

In nearly every website design I create I have headings that include dashes, especially on line start. There is simply no way to do this in Figma without extreme hassle.

If i let Figma auto-create the list and then remove the list style, it removes the dash as well. If I try to add another dash and space after the list got auto-formatted, it directly deletes the second dash which is horribly frustrating.

I have to type something else, then enter the das and space, select and copy it, move to the line start and paste it there again. But then, as soon as I accidentally remove the space to the beginning, the whole game starts again.

The Cmd/Ctrl+Z option doesn’t really work either, because Figma seems to apply some sort of styling to the dash that then overwrites the text style that is applied to the text field. Which is also frustrating because then you also have to select the dash and re-apply the text style (selecting the whole field often doesn’t work if there are multiple text styles in the field (e.g. some other type for highlighting).

This is a thing that I encounter nearly every single day and it’s causing me more than just a few grey hairs… it’s such a simple thing but it’s so frustrating and a constant problem that I have to think about switching toolsets just to not go insane at some point.

I wouldn’t call this solved at all. Yes, I can use extra clicks undo the mess that Figma adds but it is constantly in the way. I posted the original comment over 2 years ago and this is still a daily frustration.

Agreed, this is just a temporary workaround. Figma should not be automatically formatting any kind of text.

To be frank, the fact that turning off the automatic conversion or being able to toggle a list after the fact is NOT possible is mindblowing to me. This isn’t a feature request, it’s a bug report.

This feature is probably the most annoying Figma feature to me.
Please add a setting somewhere to disable this.

This is ridiculous. In this case, Figma acts like MS Word, not a design software. I need to use “1. xxx” in a title, I had to split it into two layers…

I ran into an issue with this too. When I try to copy the numbered lists to something outside of Figma, then it removes the numbers! Please fix this!

Please also remove using * as creating automated bullet point or provide ability to turn off this in user preferences.

Super annoying when I just want to get a bunch of spaced out bullet symbols in a row. Turning the list formatting off and then trying to insert a space break after a bullet symbol triggers the auto-list back on again and for some reason deletes the previous bullet already typed in.

Super mega uber annoying. Please give us a setting to turn auto-formatting off.

My workaround:

1. Turn the setting for “List Style” off to hide any bullets (if any)
2. Type the - and a . (period) like this “-.item”
3. Select the period and simply delete the color for this element
4. Copy the “-.” and paste it on every list item
   4b. If you paste on the same list, it always hides the period
   4c. If it’s a different list, you’ll have to repeat step 3. for this list too

This should have an easier option.