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5 Framer Features You Can’t Live Without
In this Framer blog, I'm revealing five hidden features that will make your workflow significantly smoother. From smart text handling to better content management, these are the power-user tricks that most people miss. If you thought you knew Framer well, these features might surprise you.
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Nandi
Table of contents
1. Truncate text for clean layouts
We’ve all been there, your blog or card layout looks perfect… until one title is longer than the others and breaks everything.
That’s where truncate comes in. Just drop your text layer on the canvas, head to the right panel, and add the truncate property. You can set it to one line, two lines, or however many you need. Anything beyond that gets hidden neatly with ellipses.
1. Truncate text for clean layouts
We’ve all been there, your blog or card layout looks perfect… until one title is longer than the others and breaks everything.
That’s where truncate comes in. Just drop your text layer on the canvas, head to the right panel, and add the truncate property. You can set it to one line, two lines, or however many you need. Anything beyond that gets hidden neatly with ellipses.
1. Truncate text for clean layouts
We’ve all been there, your blog or card layout looks perfect… until one title is longer than the others and breaks everything.
That’s where truncate comes in. Just drop your text layer on the canvas, head to the right panel, and add the truncate property. You can set it to one line, two lines, or however many you need. Anything beyond that gets hidden neatly with ellipses.
Truncating text.
Truncating text.
Truncating text.
The best part? Before this feature, you had to hack it with code overrides. Now it’s a native property, so your layouts stay consistent without the extra work. Perfect for cards, blog titles, or any design where text length can throw off alignment.
2. Inline content editing
Managing CMS content just got a whole lot easier. Instead of jumping back and forth between the CMS panel and your canvas, you can now edit content directly on the detail page. Double-click text, swap an image, tweak a title, it’s all inline. No detour into the CMS dashboard required.
And if you’re working with multiple resources or collection items, you can just switch to another one right from the page. It’s fast, intuitive, and makes updating content feel natural.
3. Text color backgrounds & highlights
Want to highlight just a few words inside a text block? Previously, this was a pain, you had to fake it with frames, absolute positioning, and z-indexing.
Now, Framer gives you fill, padding, and radius controls directly on text layers. That means you can give words a background color, round the corners, and even pad them out to create slick highlights. It’s the perfect way to call out important info without breaking your design flow.
4. Alt text management in the asset manager
Accessibility and SEO both rely on one thing: alt text. The problem? If you already built your site with tons of images, adding alt text one by one feels impossible.
The best part? Before this feature, you had to hack it with code overrides. Now it’s a native property, so your layouts stay consistent without the extra work. Perfect for cards, blog titles, or any design where text length can throw off alignment.
2. Inline content editing
Managing CMS content just got a whole lot easier. Instead of jumping back and forth between the CMS panel and your canvas, you can now edit content directly on the detail page. Double-click text, swap an image, tweak a title, it’s all inline. No detour into the CMS dashboard required.
And if you’re working with multiple resources or collection items, you can just switch to another one right from the page. It’s fast, intuitive, and makes updating content feel natural.
3. Text color backgrounds & highlights
Want to highlight just a few words inside a text block? Previously, this was a pain, you had to fake it with frames, absolute positioning, and z-indexing.
Now, Framer gives you fill, padding, and radius controls directly on text layers. That means you can give words a background color, round the corners, and even pad them out to create slick highlights. It’s the perfect way to call out important info without breaking your design flow.
4. Alt text management in the asset manager
Accessibility and SEO both rely on one thing: alt text. The problem? If you already built your site with tons of images, adding alt text one by one feels impossible.
The best part? Before this feature, you had to hack it with code overrides. Now it’s a native property, so your layouts stay consistent without the extra work. Perfect for cards, blog titles, or any design where text length can throw off alignment.
2. Inline content editing
Managing CMS content just got a whole lot easier. Instead of jumping back and forth between the CMS panel and your canvas, you can now edit content directly on the detail page. Double-click text, swap an image, tweak a title, it’s all inline. No detour into the CMS dashboard required.
And if you’re working with multiple resources or collection items, you can just switch to another one right from the page. It’s fast, intuitive, and makes updating content feel natural.
3. Text color backgrounds & highlights
Want to highlight just a few words inside a text block? Previously, this was a pain, you had to fake it with frames, absolute positioning, and z-indexing.
Now, Framer gives you fill, padding, and radius controls directly on text layers. That means you can give words a background color, round the corners, and even pad them out to create slick highlights. It’s the perfect way to call out important info without breaking your design flow.
4. Alt text management in the asset manager
Accessibility and SEO both rely on one thing: alt text. The problem? If you already built your site with tons of images, adding alt text one by one feels impossible.
Asset manager.
Asset manager.
Asset manager.
Framer’s asset manager solves this. Hit ⌘ + K, search for “asset manager,” and you’ll see every image used across your project. From there, you can scroll through and add alt text in one place instead of hunting images down individually. It’s a huge time saver, and it ensures your site is accessible while also giving search engines more context.
5. Edit content directly on your live site
If you’re logged in as the site owner, you can edit content directly on your live website. That means you (or even collaborators who aren’t familiar with Framer) can tweak text, swap images, or update content right on the published page.
You’ll still need to hop back into Framer to hit publish, but the ability to make edits in real time on the site itself is a total game-changer for collaboration.
final thoughts
These five features—truncate, inline editing, text highlights, asset manager alt text, and live-site editing—make working in Framer faster, easier, and way more fun.
If you haven’t tried them yet, test them out in your next project. They’ll save you time, clean up your workflow, and make your websites feel more polished.
Framer’s asset manager solves this. Hit ⌘ + K, search for “asset manager,” and you’ll see every image used across your project. From there, you can scroll through and add alt text in one place instead of hunting images down individually. It’s a huge time saver, and it ensures your site is accessible while also giving search engines more context.
5. Edit content directly on your live site
If you’re logged in as the site owner, you can edit content directly on your live website. That means you (or even collaborators who aren’t familiar with Framer) can tweak text, swap images, or update content right on the published page.
You’ll still need to hop back into Framer to hit publish, but the ability to make edits in real time on the site itself is a total game-changer for collaboration.
final thoughts
These five features—truncate, inline editing, text highlights, asset manager alt text, and live-site editing—make working in Framer faster, easier, and way more fun.
If you haven’t tried them yet, test them out in your next project. They’ll save you time, clean up your workflow, and make your websites feel more polished.
Framer’s asset manager solves this. Hit ⌘ + K, search for “asset manager,” and you’ll see every image used across your project. From there, you can scroll through and add alt text in one place instead of hunting images down individually. It’s a huge time saver, and it ensures your site is accessible while also giving search engines more context.
5. Edit content directly on your live site
If you’re logged in as the site owner, you can edit content directly on your live website. That means you (or even collaborators who aren’t familiar with Framer) can tweak text, swap images, or update content right on the published page.
You’ll still need to hop back into Framer to hit publish, but the ability to make edits in real time on the site itself is a total game-changer for collaboration.
final thoughts
These five features—truncate, inline editing, text highlights, asset manager alt text, and live-site editing—make working in Framer faster, easier, and way more fun.
If you haven’t tried them yet, test them out in your next project. They’ll save you time, clean up your workflow, and make your websites feel more polished.
