Display scroll bar in prototype preview mode

+1 also from me

I am web developer and whenever I am given design in Figma I struggle to know what’s scrollable… even in Figma UI. I constantly ask the designer where is the page because it’s not on the list… just to be told that I need to scroll the element that does not seem to be scrollable in the first place!

What struck me is that Figma did actual work, spent actual designer and developer time to introduce an antipattern of hiding scrollbars.

I created a tampermonkey script to reintroduce the scrollbars - and now it’s clear what is scrollable and what is not.

You need to create a new tampermonkey script with GM_addStyle grant and then use the following:
GM_addStyle(`

• {
  scrollbar-color: auto !important;
  scrollbar-width: auto !important;
  }
  `);

Prototyping tool without scrollbars = fail. Considering going back to Axure.

Hey All, thanks for your feedback!

We’ll pass this onto our prototyping team for consideration.

Agree to this feature request. When prototyping for desktop devices, the scrollbar is not only a visible indicator that there is additional content available, but also indicates the relative amount of new content that is hidden. Interacting and gathering feedback on this content is important to many of our usability labs. It should be relatively simple to implement: just include a checkbox to optionally include the scrollbar for overflow, scrollable content.

Oh this is an old topic 😲 +1

We really need this

Wow this issue has been open for 3 years.
I’m fairly new to Figma but ran into this today when building a scrolling frame. There is no indication that the frame is scrolling or scrollable, so yeah. Scrollbars. We need them.

Thank you, but this script did not work, are you sure, this is the correct syntax? Could you also append a screenshot of how it will look like?

Yes, it works. It simply displays the scrollbar that would be visible if Figma didn’t hide it. It looks exactly like any other scrollbar in your browser.

I was going to put the full script here, but this forum thinks I’m mentioning someone and blocked it.