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I would like to ask for best practice. Apply auto layout like A or B? if A, how do I make sure no spacing in between Navbar and contents? in case accidental drag. if B, I can control the spacing, just apply top padding, but I need to make navbar in absolute which may not be a good solution? Thanks guys.

Hi Figma Community, I hope everyone is doing well. I’m reaching out here because I’m facing a frustrating issue with my Figma subscription and I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar. Recently, I was surprised to find that my Figma account was charged for 5 seats, even though I only need and use one seat for my work. I’m more than willing to pay for the excellent service Figma provides, but being forced to pay for additional seats that I don’t need feels unfair and unnecessary. I’ve contacted Figma Support to try and resolve this, but I wanted to bring this issue up in the community as well. Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so, how did you manage to fix it? Any tips on how to prevent this from happening in the future would also be greatly appreciated. I really enjoy using Figma and want to continue supporting the platform, but I hope there’s a solution that doesn’t involve overpaying for services I don’t need. Thanks in advance for your insights and s

Our team is currently experiencing an issue with accessing Figma’s Dev Mode. We have a situation where our frontend team needs to check design properties such as padding, margin, and spacing. However, they are encountering a restriction that requires full permissions for Dev Mode access, even though they only need to view these properties and not make any edits. Given that we are on a $15 plan, we expected that our frontend team could access Dev Mode for property inspection without requiring additional permissions. Could anyone provide guidance on: Why Dev Mode access is restricted to users with full permissions, even for property checking? If there is an alternative way for our frontend team to view these design properties without needing full edit permissions? Are there any settings or adjustments we can make to facilitate this process? Your assistance and insights on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, my project file got deleted abnormally… I checked my delete tab and its not even in there. Wondering how a file can gets deleted while working on it. can anyone has an idea about this? I have already generated a ticket for the same. https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/1093937 Waiting for the positive reply, thanks in advance. Thank you.

Today, I was working on projects via my Figma account with the company I work for and a project from my personal account (another email address) showed up in my work “Recents.” This is problematic as I cannot have people from work viewing my personal projects. I am not the owner of my work Figma account, so I don’t know if other team members can see my “Recents” or if this is personalized to me.

It doesn’t matter what font it is, if it is not a font that comes by default in Windows 11 it gives me the same problem. I try to use a new font or one with weight variants, install it, restart Figma and it recognizes it. But when I restart the PC it stops recognizing it and asks me to install it AGAIN. This only happens to me with Figma, the rest of the programs do not have this problem, I have tried reinstalling the app, completely deleting its data from the PC (registry) and reinstalling it, updating the PC, but nothing works. All I have to do is reinstall the same font each time to keep working. I have seen people with similar problems, but the moderators usually close the forum with the typical phrase of “read our (unproductive) guide to solve this type of problem”, so the request for help goes to the community that has also gone through this and maybe you know how I could fix it. Thank you.

Howdy Figpeople! I am trying to create an interactive dropdown menu and I am experiencing an issue where I have a text frame and the icon (using material symbols plugin). I want the text to be aligned LEFT and TOP and BOTTOM, but I need the icon to be RIGHT and TOP and BOTTOM. Additionally, I want to change the icon in the variant to be 180 of the original. Here are my examples: I have figured out most of the alignment issues (I think), but it is not allowing me to select the icon frame OR the icon itself and turn it 180. Here are my layers: And this is what the alignment section looks like when I have either the icon or the icon frame selected: Notice, it does not allow me to configure the rotation. I’m really hoping someone can help me with this. I am SO close to creating reusable dropdown components and this is my last little issue. Thanks in advance!!!

Hi everyone, I would like to add a link to a button frame in my design but the “create link” option is disabled. Do you have any ideas why this could be the case? Thanks in advance for your help!

Is it possible to have a toggle that plays/mutes the audio of a video when both are within a component? I have successfully made this work when the video is on the page as an asset and only the toggle button is a component. But now I have both within a component (which I need to animate it) the toggle will not work. A play/pause the video toggle will work if I make the video itself clickable - if that matters at all. Here is an example prototype of what I’m doing: https://www.figma.com/proto/ZqSiLuG5N0Rp89qo2aeUKy/Mute-Issue?page-id=0%3A1&node-id=1-123&viewport=1181%2C75%2C0.56&t=UbWgziaVFjqiOpci-1&scaling=scale-down&content-scaling=fixed The placeholder videos and animation probably don’t make much sense out of context but I wanted to share the component exactly as is. If you scroll down the page the video will expand and the audio toggle will be visible. In reality there is a short 1-2 second loop. And when the component expands the longer video is made visible. I

Hey guys, I’m experiencing a weird bug on hover in the prototype. The hover on the instance in the beginning (of the video) and the one in the end is rooting to the same component. Everything is exactly the same apart from some properties. The one in the end works perfectly but the one in the beginning messes up completely. Without hover they work so it’s clearly the problem. But the hover settings are exactly the same. I tried everything, nothing solved it so far. Anybody experienced this bug?

the text looks like the scheenshot i uploaded in the app and in the browser

Developer here. Expected behaviour: being able to add children to components Actual behaviour: components are frozen, cannot add components, only hide existing ones, or edit text content Explanation: First of all, let me express the great job Figma has done to try replicating how actual implementation in development works in design software, and I’m glad designers were open to work with structured layouts instead of throwing around absolutely positioned boxes that break on a font size/gap change. Figma is getting close to follow the process of development implementation, components are missing a quite important property - being able to receive children. Having to pack an icon component with hundreds of icons, and hide all of them except the one needed (afaik this is the way) is quite far from dynamic, and how it works in development. In fact, in development pretty much only nest components inside components, and it’s quite rare that we create a “frame” as many times as we need it for a

Hi, we need to apply justification to every lines on a paragraph (including the last one). You see we are used to have those options in Illustrator: Justify with the last line to the left Justify with the last line centred Justify with the last line to the right Justify with the last line justified as well But Figma only seems to support - Justify with the last line to the left. Did we miss something or it’s a known limitation in Figma ? Is there a work around that exists ? Thanks !

My Figma file is locked and i tried updating the payment card to re-activate my account, However, I get an error that says payment was unsuccessful at this moment, I should try again.

when trying to update the plan, Figma gives me this error, although the mail is up to date and working. How to solve this issue? " Figma Organization only allows work emails To continue with your upgrade to Figma Organization, you will need to be using a work email address. Please change the email address of your account to proceed."

Hi all, I could not find a way to implement the “copy to Figma” feature on my website Notable examples: https://www.flowbase.co/ , https://figmacomponents.com/ I checked components with clipboard inspector and also tried to replicate the same components on the website, but nothing works. Is there someone that knows how this exactly works? Thanks

Hi, help me to understand the problem. I’ve been using Figma for 2 years and today I signed up for “FIGMA FOR EDUCATION” from this link Figma for Education | Free Tools for the Classroom. Upon completion when I entered all the data, my FIGMA completely cleared, all drafts, working projects disappeared somewhere and they are nowhere to be found … Even my saved plugins are gone… Please help me to sort out this problem, how can I get back everything I had for 2 years of work with FIGMA? P.s. I still have saved links to my projects where I was the creator and now I can not edit anything in them, I am now in my own projects observer

How can I get my emails looked at and responded to in a timely manner? Im awaiting a refund of over $11000 since March - 4 months later despite saying its been resolved I am no further forwards. My tickets get closed after providing information, it takes days and days to get any email support. Emily was the customer service person dealing with this. I have now paid twice for a yearly service. #990917

Hey guys, I did research and unfortunately couldn’t find a solution for this issue. My problem: I’m using auto-layout for everything and try to build my components as responsive as possible. Unfortunately Figma has some really really weird behaviors regarding responsive design. In this case I have a Wrapper which has a fixed height and I want to make everything inside adapting to it’s size so therefore be fill-container. Inside that wrapper I have a second wrapper which contains two boxes. The second wrapper is fill-container (works) and then I want to have the boxes fill-container as well, but Figma says “No, no, buddy, not so fast. I’ll give you some trouble here.”… and sets the height automatically to fixed-height. Whatever I try it forces the height of the two boxes to be fixed. I added a video to visualize it. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

I want to dynamically set the width of a component instance based on other instances. So I have a column based table, and cell heights in the columns may vary. So all cells that belong in the same row must be automatically set to one height based on a single cell - can that be possible? Another scenario with the same table component is that I have a frame with columns that scrolls horizontally and one column that doesn’t scroll which is fixed to the right edge of the scrollable frame with absolute position (not part of auto layout) but this fixed column could be of variable widths. The right padding of the frame must be linked to the width of the fixed column so that when a different variant of the column is selected, the padding can match exactly the new width of the fixed column and no content from the scrollable frame is lost

Whenever I try to add shapes or text to a frame/non-frame section with custom options with Auto Layout, it clips to the side and glitches out. I’m trying to add vertical padding to the top of my footer so the section next to it can have some differentiation. A video of what I’m talking about is below. app.screencastify.com

I have set all the text constraints to left and right, but why doesn’t the output want to expand from left to right. I don’t know why the fill container is limited

Hello Everyone, I’m an amateur because I’ve just started Figma. I want to ‘export’ certain parts of a Header file but there is no hiding as seen in the photo. Hotkey ctrl+shift+H also doesn’t work.

This has been a repetitive topic, but I wanted to share my personal experience. I have visual and cognitive impairment that keeps me from processing anything clustered, lacking contrast, simply tiny. My eyes have to dwell for a long time on a single point to process it; otherwise everything looks blurred and irrelevant. I used Figma for the last 5 years without an issue, until the recent beta update. I had to revert it immediately, because my brain couldn’t “read” anything. I think this could be just common method for everyone, but I use a digital interface via 1. Quick scanning of color difference, 2. Recognition of features, 3. Remembering the position of each feature. More decorations and complications means longer time to process. As you can see, the new UI uses more dynamic spacing and low contrast display(because of the semi-transparent background). The new line icon style looks clustered, and rounded semi-transparent boxes adds decorations that keeps me from scanning important

Guys. I can’t figure out why it creates a space inside the text field, as if it were a top and bottom padding. Why does this happen, and how do I eliminate this space? Example With the text tool, I click and create a text. The text has a space at the top and bottom.