LAUNCHED: Horizontal scroll the layers panel

I made a hack for this (I won’t promote it here) which adjusts the internal CSS of the property panel. Some things are a bit quirky but overall its a HUGE improvement to be able to see variant properties, text and color styles in their entirety. This makes hand-off so much smoother as others have mentioned.

It would be great to hear an official response from Figma on this, and ideally some roadmap commitment (new features are great, but a rock solid foundation, like accessible properties, is absolutely critical).

There’s currently no workaround for this (as far as I’m aware?). I’m also managing large design systems and need to see many nested layers deep.

Tooltips on the layers with long titles (the ones with ellipsis), would make my Figma-life som much easier. Outlook has done it in their pc application.

+1 🤦‍♀️
It’s just as easy to do. Why not do it?..

This.

Due to the structure of style hierarchies and labeling practices, it’s rare when an entire style name will be completely visible in this right panel.

And identifying information is usually at the end of the style’s title.

Designers tend to use larger monitors, so screen real estate would generally be ample enough to allow for more text to be shown. (But not always, so expanding the right panel should be possible, but optional.)

Developers don’t need to see as much of the canvas, so being able to expand the right (Inspect) panel makes their job easier, too. They’d be able to see the code more fully without having to copy and paste it somewhere else (just to know it’s the right code they’re after).

This is a major BUG. Making prototype connections to a complex layout is just about impossible.

Ditto. This is literally preventing me from getting work done. 😤

Ditto, really need a horizontal scroll bar here on overflow (or let us expand the panel wider). This is killing my productivity.

Please oh please, add a horizontal scroll bar in the layers panel

This is driving me nuts!

Thank you

As soon as your file grows and contains a lot of layers and nesting, it can become extremely cumbersome to select the right one.

Figma should offer layer search like Sketch.

The layer panel should also scroll horizontally. Right now once you reach a level of nesting layer names are cutoff the panel.