LAUNCHED: Horizontal scroll the layers panel

Dear community,
the width of the sidebar is fix and the names of the styles are therefore truncated.
How can I display the whole level?

Thank you!!
Ravid

It is currently not possible to change the width of the right panel. So feel free to leave feedback and vote for this opportunity here: https://forum.figma.com/t/ability-to-expand-right-workspace-panel/4325.

As a developer I would like to be able to make the right sidebar bigger so that I can read the styles of a view without having to hover over it and wait. A lot of time is wasted,

Solo enterprise startup designer here. Cleaning up my files is a luxury I don’t have at the moment. Going zero to 1 produces messy files. Need this ASAP, please! 🙏

Issue: too many child frames leads to incomplete frame name in the frame branch panel on the left side. Resizing the panel isn’t an accessible way to solve it.

Thanks a lot and I’ve voted it.

Excuse me, how can I delete this topic published by myself?

The only way I found both in web or the electron app it’s opening the console F12 or option+ command+i, inspect the sidebar and increase the width values manually…

Is there a keyboard shortcut for opening and closing frames/groups/sections/auto layouts in the sidebar?

I want to use the keyboard more and it would be helpful to be able to do that so that I can manage available space efficiently.

This would be fantastic!

• Make it scrollable horizontally
• Always show the buttons at the far-end of the layer name (lock and hide icons)
• Make the panel expand to a wider size
• While hovering on the layer’s name, a tooltip reveals the full name

Anything from this list would be greatly appreciated!

👍

Any news on this topic? 🙂

Nope, Figma devs are ghosting us

I too have this need

The right hand panel needs ability to resize in order to view full names of text styles, color styles, effect styles, inspect code and flows.

It’s concerning that this request was made in 2021 with many comments and it still has not been addressed by 2023.

Updated the userscript based on Expand/Horizontal scroll the layers/libraries panel - #54 by aolko

Drawbacks:

• Layer actions are now all the way to the right

This is absolutely necessary.

Like serious, reported in 2021 and still not allowed in 2023? UX design app which is designed as s&^t… When you want show whole style name you must wait eternity until it show in popup instead of one time resize this idiotic panel…

This can’t be rocket science. By making the properties panel more useful (nested component properties, lots of variants to choose from, etc), Figma has made the right side panel completely unusable without a simple resizer.

I get it that it’s nice and tight on a small laptop, but we do most of our professional work on LARGE screens. I use a 33in, a 28in, and a 13in screen, with hard core work on my 33in screen. Tons of pixels that I can’t use to simply resize the right hand sidebar!

Why?! Please explain why this is still an issue?

🙏 Pretty please! Auto-layout and component architecture is making nesting more and more extreme. My artboard area is becoming smaller because I need to see the full names of my layers.

I would also like to suggest the same with the left sidebar on the hompage. The teams names and favorites are also truncated.

I agree with the comment above that autolayout has compounded this issue. Please provide a horizontal scroll on the layers panel.

This topic is now a year old. It can’t be that difficult to fix and can be a significant blocker for doing our work (not to mention, a poor user experience). Please, please @Figma_Support – we need this fixed in a maintenance release.

Vote for this

Voted. It’s definitely more of an issue when relying heavily on Auto Layout.