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pinquitte
February 5, 2021

LAUNCHED: Horizontal scroll the layers panel

  • February 5, 2021
  • 311 replies
  • 22000 views

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

Matty_Vazquez
Active Member
July 2, 2024

Screw the AI bs, fix this first!!! It’s ridiculous that it’s been 3.5 years, the users have been adamantly telling you what they want, and you guys still haven’t fixed this yet? Come on!

July 5, 2024

New UI and still no horizontal scroll 😃 amazing, who does UX in Figma team 🤯

July 5, 2024

You need the team of 30 UX experts and 50 software developers to solve horizontal scroll problem, which is possible to show with one CSS prop - overflow: auto; But one day AI will replace people and we will not need horizontal scroll, so w8 🙂

sooz888
New Member
July 5, 2024

100%! Well, it’s obvious they prioritize making $$ before their users feedback/request. Their new AI future (and Figma Slides) will incur additional charges. But adding a horizontal scroll doesn’t make them any money.

Mads_Hensel_dk
July 5, 2024

I generally avoid complaining online, but I genuinely don’t understand why horizontal scrolling hasn’t been added. With the new UI3, the issue has become even more problematic, as clearly shown in the screenshots by @pavel6.

Additionally, 622 votes seem like a significant number of people to demonstrate the need for the ability to see all layers, not to mention hide a layer.

I hope this issue gets addressed soon. If you need a hint, I don’t think anyone expects anything more elaborate than horizontal scrolling, which seems like it would require minimal coding.

Stan5
New Participant
July 10, 2024

That’s because Figma completely lost touch with their userbase a few years ago

It happens at some point for each and every startup, but in the case of Figma it was really early on

djv
Figmate
Community Support
July 10, 2024

Hey All, thank you for your continued feedback!

Using your votes and recent feedback since the rollout of UI3, we were able to advocate for this feature request on your behalf, and we did it! This is officially on the UI3 team’s roadmap - it’s happening! 🙌

Thanks again for your patience and understanding, and keep an eye out on our future releases!

Matty_Vazquez
Active Member
July 12, 2024

I’ll believe it when I see it- not holding my breath…

Jessica_McKenzie
July 17, 2024

Please oh God add this feature! We’re using Auto Layout and complex components in a shared library and can’t view and edit layers properly.

Pedro7
July 25, 2024

@dvaliao Denise please help us! We have a completely new UI3 but don’t solve a simple scroll issue! I work with tables and grids here and simply need to GUESS which layer I’m clicking. It’s been almost 4 years for a simple request, it’s not possible that no one inside Figma can solve this in a quick afternoon.