LAUNCHED: Horizontal scroll the layers panel

You can do this with a userscript, but it only works on web. 😕

Using the new property features for a component is nice, but the names of the properties get truncated so it is not very usable. Please give us the ability to resize it, and also do any improvements to the way component properties are displayed.

It creates unnecessary mental strain to understand what is occurring on properties.

Hey Figma!

Wouldn’t it be great if when working on smaller screens I could benefit from a horizontal scroll of my indented layers list? Would save me the hassle of having to expand the panel and eat into my already limited canvas space.

From this…

To this can’t be that hard to add in (surely)?

Just a thought 🙂

x

@Figma_Support

I’ve just posted the same issue (not knowing this has been highlighted since early 2021).

Come on Figma. This is a basic interaction request surely. Yeah, I get it’s not going to be something with bells and whistles on, but this should be an easy implementation and will probably improve usability no end.

Don’t take it into 2023 😱. Get it done in 2022 at least.

Personally, I’d like to see both a horizontal scroll bar AND tooltips when hovering over any row in the layer’s panel (whether it’s hidden or not).

With both in place it is possible to choose between scrolling sideways - which lets me see the full name of a deeply nested layer at the expense of scrolling the name of layers closer to the hierarchy root out of view on the left - OR just hovering over the row to see the full name - whether it’s a nested layer hidden to the right or an ancestor layer hidden to the left.

Agreed - I’'m totally blocked from doing my job at the moment. I’m literally switching to web app to see if I can hack indent widths with front-end css just to get unblocked…

Agree with this request; our team is running into the same problem. Our component and style names are too long to view without being cut off.

As others have mentioned here, it is primarily a problem when our developers are using Inspect to find style names, and being able to expand the right hand panel would help alleviate this.

@Figma_Support

We literally can’t see what we are doing! 🫣
Just a scrollbar or an expand interaction. That’s all we ask. It’s not much. Just the ability to scroll left and right. I mean…we just want to SEE.

Hello hello,
with a lot of frames inside each other – things tend to get lost in the hierarchy in the left side layers panel. I would like to be able to scroll horizontally, as i today sometimes have to widen the left side panel A LOT to be able to review the components of the selected frame – leaving me with less workspace.
cheerio!

New to Figma, but in the same boat regarding this issue. To build out a UI “correctly” with frames nested within frames with auto-layout, it is imperative to be able to: a) Allow us to drag the layers panel even wider than currently allowed. I have a 5k monitor and I have plenty of room to still see the canvas. b) Add a horizontal scroll. c) possibly lessen the indent of hierarchical lists (I know that one would be visually challenging). d) “other” that I have not thought of… but I (we) need something! (please)