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pinquitte
Feb 5, 2021 10:07 AM UTC

LAUNCHED: Horizontal scroll the layers panel

What do you think about having a horizontal scroll on the layers panel? I can’t see the name of the layers and usually widen the panel to be able to see, but since I use a 13", this makes the canvas smaller.

312 replies

Gleb
Power Member
Feb 5, 2021 10:29 AM UTC

Wow, you’ve got a lot of layers… 😱

pinquitte
pinquitteAuthor
Feb 5, 2021 10:45 AM UTC

Oh yes 🤦‍♀️ One inside another…

Alex_Chan
Feb 8, 2021 9:39 PM UTC

Or at least give me a tooltip when I hover over a truncated layer name.

aolko
Mar 29, 2021 10:43 AM UTC

very underrated, a must have

aolko
Mar 30, 2021 8:23 AM UTC

and the layer buttons (lock, view) get hidden as well

Arvid
Active Member
Apr 24, 2021 10:44 AM UTC

As the title says there are some files with nested layers going so deep, the indent gets too wide:
Here an example from Microsoft’s Teams UI Kit:

While you can expand the width of the layers panel, in this example I have apparently reached the maximum width possible and some layers are still out of reach.

Preferrably Figma would scroll the layers panel automatically to always have layers in view that are cut off. When I deselect the layer in question, it would scroll back to the very left.

Ginny_Wood
New Participant
Jun 15, 2021 5:53 PM UTC

I want to be able to drag the right panel to resize it like I can with the left panel so I can view the full names of my color styles.

Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?

Ordonez_Daniel
Jun 28, 2021 12:20 PM UTC

This is also a huge issue for me. We use a lot of library components that are nested and have complex and heavy data UI so there can be a lot of nesting. It’s not always great to keep having to move make the layers panel wider.

Tim_Chege
New Member
Jun 30, 2021 8:06 AM UTC

@figma Please please provide this (horizontal scroll on layers panel, or tooltip on hovering over layer in panel). It is a real blocker to the use of some files for users.

CF1
Jul 8, 2021 5:20 PM UTC

I’ll add my request here too. This has been asked for over and over again.