LAUNCHED: Horizontal scroll the layers panel

I am desperate for any workarounds…

Scott, not sure this will help but you did say “workarounds”, and here are the two primary workarounds I use.

1. Some features/actions are available in the right click “contextual menu”, for example to show/hide, lock/unlock, etc. you can right-click (even if you can’t see the details of a row that is overflowing the layers panel).

2. I frequently drag a copy of an element/object out of the layout so it’s not nested, make changes, copy the entire element/object to my clipboard, and then select the original element/object in my primary layout and “Paste to replace”. https://www.screencast.com/t/8p08eRelzWrC (1 min)

This would help with flow labels. We name them often by a relevant user story and its impossible to read it. Expanding RHS panel would help.

😳😳😳 I honestly thought something was wrong with my Figma setup, I can’t actually believe this “feature is not supported”?

Honestly, this is absolutely mental - I have to expand the layers pane in some cases all the way to the middle of the screen and then back again just to access something. Is this seriously even still up for voting if it is to be implemented, and especially since over a year back??

I would give anything for this. I often go 10+ levels deep using layers within layers. It’s so annoying to have to expand the panel just to see what I’m selecting. It’s especially bad when you have rules turned on. Half of the time when I’m trying to expand the panel, I end up creating a guide by mistake.

+1000… this is crazy you can’t horizontal scroll the layers panel…

Guys here is a quick hack if you are using the web version. Add this piece of CSS through your dev tools and it should reduce the spacing and you should be able to see much much deeper layers:

[class*="object_row--indent--"] {
  margin: 0!important;
  width: 8px;
}

To do this, open the dev tools, in the top right corner, you will see “+” sign, click it.
A new row will appear and in the right side, you will see “inspector-stylesheet” link, click it! Now paste the provided code and it should work.

Hope this works for you like it worked for me.

Made a userscript

I thought this was merely a personal nuisance, but I’m awfully relieved to hear that it bothers other people as much as it bothers me. +100000 to this! I have to imagine that this is an issue even for Figma’s own design team. One of your moderators called this a “feature” in another thread. It is not. It’s an oversight, plain and simple.