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SLT-UX
Active Member
April 3, 2021

Temporarily hiding selection outlines

  • April 3, 2021
  • 75 replies
  • 9403 views

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
February 3, 2022

Ctrl+Shift+’ to toggle snapping.

MitchR
February 3, 2022

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
February 27, 2022

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

Harry_Dry
February 28, 2022

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

GregJacobs
June 9, 2022

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
July 1, 2022

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

tben
New Member
July 15, 2022

➕ Yes, please.

Tibi_Halmaciu
September 8, 2022

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

Macelaru_Tiberiu
September 13, 2022

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
September 19, 2022

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.