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Fastest way to transfer properties from child to parent frame?

  • June 26, 2026
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Julia57

With components, I very often have to clean up layers by ungrouping unnecessary groups that only have one child. imagine you have a styled box inside your main component wrapper, but the main component wrapper itself could have just carried the styling, thus saving 1 unnecessary layer. 

So I have to transfer the styling and autolayout (basically all properties) from the box to the outermost layer. This used to work justs by copy and pasting properties. But now it seems that Autolayout properties do not get copied anymore. 

Does anyone have some kind of plugin or other solution for this?

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Jaycee Lewis
Figmate

Hey hey ​@Julia57 👋 Thanks for putting that together. Cleaning up those single-child wrapper layers is a really common need. 

First, let’s pin down exactly what's dropping out. The most helpful thing you could share is a short screen recording of you copying properties from the box and pasting onto the wrapper, so we can see which properties come through and which don't.

A couple of things questions:

  • Are you on the desktop app or in the browser, and on Mac or Windows?
  • Does it behave any differently if you use the right-click menu (Copy/Paste as > Copy properties, then Paste properties on the wrapper) instead of the keyboard shortcut? I’ve seen posts from this year where another app quietly “grabbed” the copy shortcut, so the copy half silently fails while paste looks fine. Here’s the menu path and shortcuts help center article for reference. 

Talk soon! — Jaycee
 

    Julia57
    • Julia57
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    • June 29, 2026

    ​@Jaycee Lewis Hey, thanks for responding. Of course as soon as I make a test version to screen record, it suddenly works as expected 🤦 I’ll try to catch it the next time it happens.

    But to clarify, I was on Mac Desktop App, using ⌘⌥C and ⌘⌥V. the Fill and stroke properties were being pasted, but not the autolayout. The target box would acquire autolayout, but with the wrong padding and gap.

    Jaycee Lewis
    Figmate

    Ok ​@Julia57, thanks for trying. If we can caputre it and, hopefully, get a file where it’s reproducible, I’ll get us a support ticket filed. Have a great week! — Jaycee

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