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Issues with text

  • February 27, 2025
  • 2 replies
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Angel Martin

For around the last week, we’ve been having various problems with text inside our Figma files.

Sometimes, elements that have text properties attached to them become un-usable. If I try to Cmd+Click to edit the text inside the instance, it simply will not select. If I type text into the property field, it displays in the panel but that’s not reflected in the instance.

There are also problems with display. I have a menu for example, with a background colour and text colour variables applied, and default and active states:
 


But when I change to the active state, the text vanishes from view, although it has the correct, dark colour applied:
 


Last thing is that sometimes when we change states, Figma is resetting the name of the layer:
 


We’ve closed and re-opened the files. Closed and restarted Figma. Closed and restarted our machines. Cleared the cache. It’s not on every piece of text or every component. A component that was working fine earlier in the week is now playing up.

Is anyone else experiencing similar bugs?

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Angel Martin
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  • February 27, 2025

And here’s an example of the property not taking a new input…
 

 


  • Figmate
  • 1805 replies
  • February 28, 2025

Hi ​@Angel Martin , Thanks for reaching out and for taking the time to troubleshoot!
 

We're sorry to hear you're running into these issues:

  • Trouble updating text properties.
  • Changes to text fields in the Properties panel not appearing on the canvas.
  • Color variables in the "Selection colors" section not matching the color on the canvas.
  • Layer names resetting unexpectedly.

This definitely sounds frustrating! To help us get to the bottom of this, I'll create a support ticket for you.

Our support team will be in touch soon to help. Keep an eye on your inbox for an email about the new ticket (it'll be sent to the email address we have on file for your account). 

To ensure our support team can quickly address these issues, please provide the following details in your ticket reply:

  • A video of the problem happening (showing your whole screen).
  • Easy-to-follow steps so we can recreate the issue.
  • The URLs of the files where you're seeing the problems.

You can find more info here. Thanks again for reaching out!


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