We did not really find a definive solution for the detaching of text-styles issue – and we used the same remedy as you described and reset text-styles manually.
But, what we found out is, that overriding the styling of multiple variants in a variant set at the same time sometimes causes the text styles to be detached, especially when you have components with nested components.
Also, styling the actual variant set container (we often do dotted borders and background colouring) caused text styles of the variants placed within to be detached.
I am not sure if the Figma team made some changes that better the behaviour in the last months, but paying close attention to text-styles when setting up or re-styling variant sets helped us to work around the issue for now.
Same thing here. What I was able to identify is that when I manually change position of my text object, the text style get instantly detached. I made a video about it.
I just experienced this unprecedented issue after publishing variants to my team library. The text styles were attached when I published them 2 days ago. But today I noticed that the text layers in the base components have the styles attached, while the parent components have text layers with detached styles, not to mention they’ve all gone up in weight. All the text layers were affected! This is bad since there are so many people on my team using our library. No one should have to go back and reattach multiple styles. See screencap below.
I am pretty sure this one is happening again. I can’t figure out what actions are causing it, but all my text styles are getting detached over and over again and it’s very frustrating. The text styles are not local, they’re coming from a published library.
Been having the same issue, very annoying. No idea what triggers it, but what has helped me to quickly match styles again is the plugin called Design Lint, you’ll be able to select all layers with missing styles and match them again all at once.
I was wondering if this was me being sloppy or a Figma issue.
I’m also encountering this even after the fix was deployed. Seems it’s still a running issue.
This has been an issue for quite some time. Is @Figma looking into this? This problem is further aggravated for our developers who normally use the style name to build the text components in code. They keep coming back to us asking what is the text style.
@Figma I don’t want any new features until this is fixed. Please prioritize stability over everything else.
The team is still tracking this issue, but there’s no exact timeline for a fix.
For now, the two workarounds they suggest are:
Manually swapping the dangling/unlinked instance to another instance of the component
Going back into version history, finding a version of the file where the instance is not dangling, restoring that version as a new file, and then copying and pasting the frame with those instances back into the working file
fix this please x2, it’s a awful experience
See screencap below.
