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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

Emmet_Smyth1
May 19, 2023

+100 for this feature - it’s a huge oversight not to have it.

tallerdp
May 23, 2023

+1 ~ would be a great feature

John_Likes_To_Edit
New Participant
June 10, 2023

+1 as well, this is a must have

Dmitry_Shuklin
July 7, 2023

Must have.

September 5, 2023

+1 Must have, can’t see what I’m doing otherwise.

Sonny2
November 13, 2023

Is there any solution yet ?

Jess_Louwagie
December 13, 2023

+1 Very useful feature, really hoping this makes it in!

March 7, 2024

I’m not getting the paid version until they implement this

Harri_Granholm
New Participant
March 8, 2024

I have used this in Photoshop nearly every day for about 30 years, so I think I can say with some authority that this is a very useful feature. Every day when I use Figma it annoys me and slows down my design work.

I understand that this can accidentally get new users into a confusing mode/state where you don’t know something is selected. But Figma is professional software and it should have critical features like this. The usefulness way outweighs the potential issues. (And you could alleviate this issue by, for example, with a modal that tells the users what is happening the first time they use this. And using a keyboard combo, not just single key, so it’s less likely to be pressed accidentally.)

March 19, 2024

Yes, please!