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Naomi_Adkins
Naomi_Adkins
Active Member
October 12, 2026
Question

Horizontal Auto-Layout Ignoring Fill Widths

I’ve got two frames set to fill the width of their parent container. One of them (with text inside) has 24px padding set on the L+R. This seems to mean that the fill widths are unequal, and I don’t understand WHY. 

 

Equal pixel widths would make each side 684px wide. Instead I get 708px and 660px.

 

I think this is expected behaviour, as using legacy auto-layout fixes it, but I don’t know how to account for it in my workflow.

 

I need the image to be half the frame width, and the text frame to be half the container width, with the padding INSIDE the box. And a set variable value for padding on the parent container. 

 

2 replies

Nellya
Nellya
Power Member
October 12, 2026

As a solution, you can wrap your left frame in another fill auto layout without paddings

    Sitsiilia
    Sitsiilia
    New Participant
    October 14, 2026

    +1 to the one other comment. Wrap whichever frame has the padding (the text one), and set the inner padded frame to fill so it stretches to the wrapper. Same idea as moving the padding to an inner frame, and you keep your variable binding as is.

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