Cmd+Opt+Drag only selects items in bounds

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January 26, 2021
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Mass selecting elements in Figma can be a pain. Especially with the new changes to auto-layout sometimes elements will get nested 4 or 5 frames deep. In Sketch, you can press Cmd+Opt while dragging to select a group of objects. When you do this it will only select elements completely within the drag area. This makes mass selecting way more powerful. I’d love to see Figma copy it or come up with something better.

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Jackie_Hunter

This is driving me crazy. As others have suggested, please implement a solution - either something like Sketch’s Opt-drag, or even better, a setting like Axure’s beloved Selection Mode setting.

Staislav_Pimenov

Lack of this feature stopped me from migration from Sketch to Figma for a several years. This is a huge time saver! But most people come from Photoshop and they are just happy with current selection methods. So this request not so popular unfortunetly :-C

Nicholas_Johnson

Axure has this selection mode, and I am struggling without it. When objects are on top of one another, this option to change selection mode to Contained is very important.

Here’s some evidence of the importance of this feature…A couple years ago, Axure tried to take this selection mode away, but their user community found it so useful that they had to bring it back in short order.

Lior_Daniel

@anon21722796 please add this feature. Believe it or not, the lack of this feature has prevented me from using Figma. It’s super annoying to select objects without it.

Shane

Chiming in here that this is the single thing I miss from Sketch, even years on. Miro has just recently implemented this nicely as well; if you click and hold, after a second the cursor changes to a cross and you can drag a “select only the layers fully inside bounds” box.

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