Why does Figma make you use plugins for simple features that are a part of every application everywhere? This should be a standard feature, imo.

One guess: It keeps the default software “lighter” and less resource intensive to run.

It’s not ideal but an alternative is something like Photoshop where there are so many features packed into every conceivable space that it becomes a massive bloated titanic that takes 5 minutes to startup.

Hahaha，I just realized it，that’s true

Besides the Search Layer feature, the share link file strongly needs a search in the “Viewer Mode” Otherwise, the handoff document is inefficient navigation for non-designer users.

@Josh Sorry, just have to disturb somebody on this. I just can’t wrap my head around it that there is a search almost everywhere in Figma, but not in the layer list. Is this something very complicated to build? Is there some sort of principle choice behind it? I am flabbergasted, but just trying to make “some” noise to hope somebody will see this and just pushes the button on this.

Cheers 🙂

Agree on the performance goal, but come on, search/replace is such a basic feature. Everyone needs it (as in any decent document creation tool). You should only have to turn to plugins for special features, not core ones.

Plugins are always quite slow to launch and run, which is impractical for simple find/replace operations.

I was thinking about this idea of an Flag or mark or checkpoint. Often when I’m editing a frame, I go around searching for some elements from other frames and after copying that element, it gets tedious to get back to my initial frame. How about a shortcut to jump back to that Flagged/marked frame? It’ll save loads of time.

Plus if you only have read only view on a file you can’t add a plugin to search for a screen you are looking for

Plus, the only decent plugin I have personally found is called Find and replace, and it does not work on the entire file – only the current page. Not so useful then.

Please support this, Figma.

I’ve installed five plugins just for text search and replace. None of them is a complete solution (the above-linked Find and Replace comes closest, though I appreciate Change Text for its live preview), and all struggle with large documents resulting in an app that bogs down for many seconds with each input change.

What I want to be able to do in Figma:

• Locate a text layer containing an arbitrary text string (and then the next such text layer, and so on) – either within selection, page, or document.


• Replace All occurrences of an arbitrary text string with another string – either within selection, page, or document.

Totally agreed - a plugin? Dedicated to text search? And with no shortcut key? So we really have to right-click for context menu, go to Approved Plugins, and select (from a potentially huge list) the Find and Replace, just to search for text?? Every. Single. Time??

Think about trying correlate text in many button labels, titles, etc., etc. with localizable string keys.

Hey @Eric7,

There may be a plugin in our community that can do this. Here’s an example:

It’s really insane that a layer-based software would not offer layer search. This should be number 1 on the feature request list. Not even hard to implement compared to other recent features.

Hello

I really miss the search options I have in Sketch

All the day we are managing layers, so I think it will improve a lot the experience in Figma.

I got all the plugins you think about, but it’s not always fast, and it can’t run with other plugin opens.

Simple example:

• You can’t run Figma tokens and Similayer and the same time


• You can’t run Toolabs Design System Manager and use Select by name

Thanks to do something 🙂

I have 100’s of layers and frames, and when I turn a frame off it’s lost in a long list of layers with no way to find it except by scrolling carefully for a long time. Please add a search function and save our sanity.

Guys and Gals, I’ve been following this thread and waiting for a solution for a few weeks. Finally, I decided to build a plugin FrameSearch . Now here it is! A tool that helps you to search for any frame across all the pages by its name, jump and zoom into any frame you are looking for. Similar to but better than (hopefully) the search option we are missing in sketch

But with viewers like the development team, BA, PM, PO,… they can not use plugin. It’s really inconvenient.

Couldn’t agree more with so much in this thread!

This thread is pretty long, so I’m sorry in case somebody already mentioned this one… but I’ve just found this plugin Find in Page. It lets you search for layers and texts, you can even specify what layer type you’re searching for. Hope it helps someone.

I’ve created a premium search plugin to solve this problem that’s a little different from the others. It enables fast search across all of your Figma files and teams, and it won’t slow down on larger Figma files. Downside is that it takes ~10 minutes to set up and it’s paid.

Here’s the link: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1030790287382118338/Supersearch

I’ve been using it for myself the last couple of weeks with CMD+F mapped to open it - it’s definitely a huge timesaver.

Hi @Emile_Paffard-Wray sadly the plugin-link does not work. - 😢 that was exactly what we were searching for. just pressing cmd+f and find

Apologies Rebecca, I ended up shutting it down as no one was using it consistently or paying and it’s quite expensive to run the servers for it.

Please do give this plugin FrameSearch a try! I’ve used it for almost a year now.

Also, binding the shortcut with cmd+F is super easy. Here is an official guide from Apple: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/create-keyboard-shortcuts-for-apps-mchlp2271/mac

Hope you enjoy the journey!

Thanks @Martin_Novotny!! That was the only plugin that worked for me

There should be an option to search only inside the selected frames in the “find panel”:

• Selected frames


• This Page


• All Pages

The new Find function is great, but is unusable when you have millions of the same object duplicated on a page, but you only want to select instances inside a single Frame, or multiple selected Frames.