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pinquitte
February 5, 2021

LAUNCHED: Horizontal scroll the layers panel

  • February 5, 2021
  • 311 replies
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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.

311 replies

Gleb
Power Member
February 5, 2021

Wow, you’ve got a lot of layers… 😱

pinquitte
pinquitteAuthor
February 5, 2021

Oh yes 🤦‍♀️ One inside another…

Alex_Chan
February 8, 2021

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

aolko
March 29, 2021

very underrated, a must have

aolko
March 30, 2021

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

Arvid
Active Member
April 24, 2021

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
June 15, 2021

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
June 28, 2021

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
June 30, 2021

@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
July 8, 2021

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