Property 'fontName' does not exist on type 'BaseStyle'

[Maxime_Daraize]

Hello all,

I have this typescript error, but i am not sure what is mean, and how to resolve it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[ntfromchicago]

Did you mean to use getRangeTextStyleId instead from a TextNode?

[Maxime_Daraize]

Hello Nelson,
Thanks for the reply.

I want the property of the entire TextNode and not on character set of that TextNode.

So what i did was to find all TexT Styles and then compare their fontName.family Property to other element. What is confusing me its that everything is working as intended, but im still having this typescript error/warning message.

Is their any information on BaseStyle Type or why it might say that the property does not exist on it while in fact it does return something?

[ntfromchicago]

Ah, thanks for the clarification. The good news is that if your code works, it’s fine. That’s because your TypeScript gets compiled into JavaScript. So the error you see doesn’t exist in JS.

TypeScript is designed for syntax and type checking, so that warning appears because it thinks you are sending it a BaseStyle but you know (correctly) that it’s a TextStyle.

To make this error go away, just cast it explicitly as a TextStyle, e.g.

const aTextStyleFontFamily = (figma.getStyleById(id) as TextStyle).fontName.family

[Gleb]

Get all nodes that are red

In simplest terms, this is TypeScript warning you about the fact that a specific property you are trying to access may not be present on the nodes depending on the type. It’s a TypeScript error, which doesn’t mean your code is wrong, it means TypeScript thinks it’s wrong. It knows that findAll function and other similar functions can return all types of nodes (SceneNode), and it doesn’t know that your condition will only return objects of a specific type. There are four ways to “fix” this: U…

[Maxime_Daraize]

Thank again for taking the time to answer. It is really helpful and explicitly asserting the time fixed the error

[Maxime_Daraize]

Hi Gleb, thank you for the detail answer. Really appreciated it