LAUNCHED: UI3 - Make Clip Content a checkbox again

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In UI3 the clip content function is now a dropdown rather than a checkbox. Seems like an unnecessary extra click that is hidden in a dropdown rather than a simple checkbox toggle. Wondering why this was changed

Nefi

New Participant

Totally agree. If there isn’t a third option to choose from, it should be presented as a checkbox rather than a dropdown menu.

Duong_Anh1

New Member

I think they try to hide something “uncommon to use” but not this thing 😃

The

Active Member

I was really surprised to see this. Why send a choice of two options to a dropdown? This is weird and increases the time it takes to select “clip content”

djv

Community Support

Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this onto the team for consideration.

jeter_lee

New Participant

The container clips the excess content, which used to be a checkbox. Now there are no more than 2 options here, but the menu is used. When setting each time, you need to click multiple times. Is it better to use the checkbox?

When searching for components, I currently find a better entry is this AI entry (ctrl +/), but it is still not very convenient. In the past, you could search for components directly in one step. Now you have to switch to assets to search for components, which will be inconvenient for people who use components a lot in their projects. If you use the assets in the left panel, you can’t display layer information again. Hope to be optimized.

Jurrien1

New Member

Hey,

Since the new Figma UI, I hate the dropdown for the functionality show/clip content. It’s one option, should be a checkbox or switch. This is a UX fail, 1 extra click. It’s frustrating.

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djv

Community Support

Hey All, thanks for your continued feedback and votes!

This is officially on the UI3 team’s roadmap for improvement - stay tuned! 😉

Bauke_Schildt

Active Member

For existing UI2 users, it was really unclear where the “clip content” option had gone, because people will “scan-read” for “clip” but the default (checkbox off in UI2) is now “Show content”.

“Show content” is also a bad descriptor of the feature/setting.
It always shows the content, it may just clip some of it to the bounding box of that layer if you change it to clip. The opposite of Show is Hide, not Clip.