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Customizing Figma components: challenges and solutions

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I'm hoping someone can help me with the Figma components. I love using Relume for Webflow, but now I am trying them in Figma to design. Some of the components, I want to change. For instance, I want a header to be a slider. But, it won't let me add anything to show I want it to be a slider. I also have some cards I want to put an overlay on and I am unable to do this as well. I am unable to manipulate them to make the design and structure more of what I want. Is this impossible to do in Figma? Is it more just adding text, images, and color? Any helps is appreciated. Oh, and yes, I went to the main component and was unable to edit it or break the component. TIA.

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you'll want to right click and "detach instance" or cmd/ctrl + b when you have the component/section selected. Then you should have full editing power.

Hi Matt, That's what I am not seeing is the "detach instance" to unlock the component so to speak. It's just not there for some reason. I just tried the ctrl+b and it blinks and the purple goes away and then when I go to work in it, it highlights purple again and I can't do anything. ??? I appreciate your help though.

Update...I decided to shut down my whole computer not just the desktop app and it worked! The detach instance is now there and I was able to edit. Thanks so much!

Very interesting, glad you were able to work that out!

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