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How do you prevent Figma Site from creating these open space gaps?

  • August 4, 2026
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KristenBecker

I am designing a website in Figma Site as I am learning how to use Figma Site and I figured it would work the same as autolayout but its not working? I dont know if this is a bug or if I am doing something wrong. All my auto-layout is correct, when I play around with it (stretch the width and stuff), it works the exact way it should both in Figma design and Figma Site, but as soon as I enter the present mode to test it there, it creates these weird gaps when it's not on the exact breakpoint, and it ignores all autolayout fill rules and cuts off some of the containers and text. 

An example of what it looks like:


How can it have such a weird gap but at the very same time cut the image and text off? What can I do to fix it?

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delasherasjulen317

This actually sounds like a known pattern with Figma Sites since it's still in open beta — the gap issue usually shows up when there's a fixed-width layer somewhere in the hierarchy that isn't set to Fill container, so it looks fine at your exact breakpoints but breaks at anything in between. Worth double-checking that every layer down the chain, not just the top-level frame, is set to fill rather than fixed width, since one stray fixed layer buried deep can cause exactly this kind of gap-and-cutoff combo.

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