Override components text attributes

You don’t need to click through: simply select the text tool (shortcut — letter T) and click the text layer you want to edit. Or Cmd/Ctrl + Click the text layer (deep select) and press enter.

Yeah this is one of the main differences in how Figma works when compared to Sketch. We favor on-canvas manipulation for overrides vs needing to edit them in the panel on the right. Personally I feel that this allows for much quicker exploration and adjustments when working with components. 🙂

But what happens when you need to change the same text value for various instances of the same component? It would be nice to have a way to achieve this, e.g. A collapsable overrides panel or a MultipleCursor-like feature (like the one coding editors have), instead of going one by one.

Couldn’t we have both – the ability to edit on-canvas and in a panel? That is what Sketch allows you to do. It would make it soooo much easier (faster) when needing to override multiple components with the same value. For instance, I’ve got a button repeating on many screens. We recently made some improvements to the button component which ended up reverting the button text to the default. Now I need to click into each one to edit it. Selecting all the buttons at one time and entering a common value would be much faster (and less tedious).

Is this still true? It’s quite tedious and edit text values on multiple components, unless I am missing something…