A plain marquee now selects each top-level layer it touches: a partly covered frame or section gives the layers in it the marquee touches, an enclosed one is selected itself, an empty frame on touch, a rotated shape by its outline. A drag from inside a frame never selects that frame and also takes the top-level layers it touches outside it. Once the marquee selects a frame whole, no frame opens and a partly covered frame comes whole. Measured in Figma's web app, 2026-11-11.
Flipped existing assertions: marquee_selects_what_it_touches, cmd_marquee_selects_nested_layers, a_box_selects_like_a_marquee. Tests: marquee_behaviour_tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Model-Effort: Opus 5.5 drove; Fable 5.1 briefed; Sonnet 5.5 wrote at medium
Measuring (Alt/Option): distances from the selection to the hovered layer,
its parent (over the selection itself or empty space) and ruler guides;
Cmd+Alt for nested layers; containment both ways, overlaps between matching
edges, gaps with dashed extension lines; rotated layers and several selected
layers by their bounds; the measured box outlined. Alt while dragging shows
live distances to the neighbours (or the parent's edges); Shift+Alt reads out
an auto layout frame's padding and gaps. Labels are placed so they never
overlap each other or the size label and stay the same size at every zoom.
Commands: measure.distances, measure.padding.
Scale tool (K) canvas handles: one factor about the Scale panel's anchor
(tool.scaleAnchor, shared by the panel and the canvas; the opposite handle when
the anchor is on the side being dragged), Alt from the centre, flips past the
pivot, rotated layers and lines along their own axes, one undo step per drag,
a live factor in the size label and the pivot marked. scale_node now also
scales min/max sizes, layout grids, guides, fixed grid tracks, tiled images,
paragraph indent and run letter spacing.
Selection: Cmd/Ctrl-marquee selects nested layers, Shift-marquee toggles,
the context menu's Select layer lists every layer under the click
(select.layersAt), outlines are purple for every layer inside components and
instances, hover outlines show with the Scale tool too. Fixed marquees
selecting layers that only overlapped the marquee on one axis.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
