Defaults for Auto Layout Resizing

I also have this gripe. I use Auto Layout to build pretty much every section and it’s annoying how sometimes moving frames with Fill Container somewhere else will default to Fixed Width.

I think a good middle ground is default to Fill Container when moving to Auto Layout parent and keep Fixed Width for everything else.

Not sure, but setting “fill container” as the default might mess up the page when applying auto-layout while “fixed width” sort of mimics the previous state when auto-layout was not added. So seems logical?

Maybe this should take constraints into account and set resizing based on that

Absolutely agree. I actually came here to write the exact same thing you wrote.

I think the default settings when changing Auto Layout “direction” should be improved.

99% of the time I use fill container.

Shift-A to set items into an auto-layout; but then i have to re-click each separate item to set to fill container. So redundant, all day every day.

Same here, and it’s a bit annoying and time-consuming going through the layers to ser fill container rather than fixed width.

I’m experiencing this same issue rn, thought this happens to only me. If anyone here knows mizko, he did a video on constraints and autolayout and he was able to apply constraints to the desktop frame, I still can’t figure out how he was able to do this on his own app…

Yep, I wish at least that when you select elements that are already set to fill, and you wrap them on a new auto layout (Shift + A), to preserve that, and not reset to fixed. For me, that makes no sense at all.
What you think of this suggestion? Wrap elements in autolayout and preserve resizing of children

I’m dumbfounded by how the Figma team hasn’t included exactly such a feature. It’s as it they don’t want power users.

“We’re busy working on new features” is not an excuse. This is one of the slowest moving mainstream products on the internet.

I also want to ‘fill container’ 99% of the time. I also dislike how it changes the settings of all children inside it from whatever they were already set to ‘fixed’. I do a lot of work with large nested auto layouts for responsive web design (as opposed to say apps).

This is killing me every day I use Figma