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Brian_Clay
January 26, 2021

Cmd+Opt+Drag only selects items in bounds

  • January 26, 2021
  • 41 replies
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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.

41 replies

August 24, 2023

Is this feature now available? I also have troble selecting the abjects inside the selecting window

Hampus_Svallfors
September 18, 2023

Please add a “select only the layers fully inside bounds” shortcut, thanks 🙏

Xiaowei
New Member
September 28, 2023

2.5 years pasted why Figma still doesn’t have this function? 🤔

November 16, 2023

I would also appreciate the option to select objects in bounds only. ✌️

March 8, 2024

It’s the little things that matter. This is the main reason I’m an anti-sponsor of Figma. None of the other good features outweigh this feature. When I first used Sketch, and found out about this, it revolutionized my workflow. This was the equivalent of walking with a cast my whole life and having it removed. I can’t go back to the cast. I would use MS paint if it had this feature. I am technically a Figma user, but I don’t use Figma because of this.

Jonathan_Vaage1
April 19, 2024

I would also very much appreciate this feature!

Luca_Benazzi
New Member
July 23, 2024

I second this request, would be a useful feature. Right now, the easiest way to achieve this is to use deep select and then hold the shift key and do another deep select to exclude the items that are not supposed to be included in the selection, by doing a new deep selection that is smaller than the original. Other options for special cases are the menu Edit > Select all with…, or using the Layers pane on the bottom left (which brings selected items into focus in real time, and can be handy, when the number of layers is not overwhelming). Here, using search to filter down visible layers is also an option.

Laren Dubkowski
New Member
February 12, 2025

I missed this feature the first day I switched to Figma a few years ago and still miss this feature on a daily basis. Maybe one day we’ll see a fix for this.

Shallwey
New Participant
March 14, 2025

I think this should be a technical limit for the web based app than a native app (vs Sketch), there is no reason to ignore such a useful function which the customers desired for. 

Nader Al-Naji
New Member
August 1, 2025

The ability to only select things that are fully within the bounds of the selector is sorely needed. Went back to Excalidraw and cancelled my Figma subscription because this feature was not available.