Rotate through siblings when bulk selecting multiple items

[Marcelo_Davanzo]

Today I can use Enter / Shift + Enter to go in / out one level when selecting an element. If the element has child elements, I can use Tab / Shift + Tab to rotate through the child element’s siblings.

However, when navigating multiple elements with child elements, the Tab / Shift + Tab shortcut does not work to rotate through the siblings. @Svarry describes this well here:

How to navigate between sibling layers?

Currently, you can press enter to go down one step in layers, and shift-enter to go up. That’s really useful, but completely pointless when there’s multiple layers at same level, and you need to select only one of them. Is it possible to somehow select only first in the list, or navigate to next sibling? Because right now, when I enter into a deeper layer, it selects all layers within making any kind of manipulation impossible.

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Having the ability to navigate child elements in bulk would be immensely useful and make the existing selection tools much more powerful. Especially now with the introduction of variants which often requires one to have many exact copies of the same component with virtually the exact same structure, being able to navigate siblings would make editing things in bulk (like auto layout props, text styles) a breeze.

There are code snippets created by community members (as in the post I linked above) that achieve exactly the behaviour I’m describing here. And since this functionality already exists when selecting a single component it seems like enabling it for multiple elements would be a quick win.

[Gleb]

I think you quoted the wrong post.

[Marcelo_Davanzo]

Fixed, it was pointing to post #2 in that thread instead of the OP.

[Elwynn]

Oh my, this needs to happen

[Damir]

There’s a plugin now that does this: Figma

But 100% agree this should “just work” as part of Figma’s core feature set.

[Chris_Beltran]

Yep although the plug-in is a godsend it should be part of Figma’s core capabilities. This would definitely help my growing team with their design workflows!