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SLT-UX
Active Member
Apr 3, 2021 11:52 PM UTC

Temporarily hiding selection outlines

In other design tools you can simply press a key, and any selection outlines, grab handles, etc. get hidden while the key is down, so you can preview and evaluate how things look, without having to de-select everything and lose your selection.

Apparently there is no way to do this in Figma =(

This is important while experimenting with different colors, fonts, etc., and in Figma it could be used to see how different sizes, variants, and states, look in your design, without those selection handles and outlines getting in the way of you previewing things.

75 replies

MitchR
Feb 3, 2022 4:58 PM UTC

Ctrl+Shift+’ to toggle snapping.

MitchR
Feb 3, 2022 5:03 PM UTC

I’m +1G on this. Very important (and basic to CG design).

I’d recommend a toggle (which is what Adobe does) rather than pressing a key.
Reason: If you are holding a key and the cursor is inside a text box (or anything else that accepts input) you have a conflict in your UX. To see how nasty this is, check out the Affinity products.

Ricardo_Desirat
New Participant
Feb 27, 2022 8:44 PM UTC

Hi @MitchR
And thanks. But I think that’s for Pixel Grid Snapping.
The problem is with Object & Geometry.

Harry_Dry
Feb 28, 2022 12:54 PM UTC

Adding nothing except this is the one feature I want more than any other by a long way. Thank you!

GregJacobs
Jun 9, 2022 2:09 PM UTC

I agree, this would be very helpful while editing styles of a selected element, especially the border or box shadows are difficult to see changes when the element is selected with blue selection handles.

In Adobe Illustrator, you can toggle this by simply pressing the “H” key ( i think 🤔 ) and this helps speed up time of making visual adjustments to the selected layer / element to see what it actually looks like without the selection box.

Great suggestion on #productideas or improvement to the Figma app!

Alexander_Tazh1
Jul 1, 2022 10:47 PM UTC

Oh my god, are you kidding me? FIGMA COME ON THIS IS A MUST FEATURE.

tben
New Member
Jul 15, 2022 6:38 AM UTC

➕ Yes, please.

Tibi_Halmaciu
Sep 8, 2022 7:36 AM UTC

This needs to be done asap. Please and thank you.

Macelaru_Tiberiu
Sep 13, 2022 8:30 AM UTC

This is very useful, I have problems seeing my designs when they are thin and semi-transparent especially when using st


rokes.

AkiF
New Participant
Sep 19, 2022 6:18 PM UTC

Let’s revive this suggested small but impactful improvement.
This seems to me as well like a low hanging fruit and deserves way more upvotes than merely 28.