Feedback: Symbol content overrides

[brjohnson (Barrett Johnson)]

Questions, comments, concerns re: ?

Build and maintain layouts smarter with symbol content overrides

Now you can change images, text, videos, and links in a single instance of a symbol without affecting others — making it easier to create and maintain recurring layouts across your site that have unique content. Webflow’s symbols are great when you have a recurring layout whose content is exactly the same across each instance — for example, a nav bar, a footer, or a sign up form — but what if you have a recurring layout that has unique content in each instance? [image] Create override fields…

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[dram (Alex Dram)]

This is actually such a huge thing. One of those that change our whole workflow and how we should think when creating layouts! Awesome job, guys!

[ColibriMedia (Pierre Jean Duval)]

Awesome feature, once it’s find its place in my workflow I’m sure It’ll increase my productivity and save a few headaches.

[marklovin (Mark)]

Absolutely love it BUT… pleeeeaaase add overrides for Lottie animations!! I need this badly!

[dapitts08 (davida)]

Absolutely love this.

One suggestion…

It would be great if we could link the html embed as well. I use the html embed to add svg icons to a link block to create button with icons. It would be great to be able to easily switch out the icon the same way we could with an image field.

[kreediam (Kevin Reed)]

What about populating an override field from a CMS item? I have a page header symbol, and I would love to populate the h1 element in my symbol from the title field on my CMS item.

In other words, I’m looking for this option:

On this dialog:

[Audrey_Magre (Audrey Magré)]

Has this been added yet? I can’t find a way to override my Lottie animation symbol on my grid, so I’m thinking of deleting the symbol and doing it all manually