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Text layout-resizing automatically switches to "Auto Height" when pasting more than 28 characters

  • June 29, 2026
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Ntyan

Hi everyone,

I’m experiencing a strange behavior with Figma’s text layout-resizing mode.

When I paste a text string longer than 28 characters, the layout-resizing property automatically changes to Auto Height.

For example:

  • Pasting abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12 (28 characters) → layout-resizing switches to Auto Height.

  • Pasting abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1 (27 characters) → layout-resizing stays as Auto Width.

This happens consistently. Is this expected behavior? Is there a hidden threshold or setting that triggers this? I’d like to keep the text box as Auto Width regardless of length, but it keeps forcing the change when I paste longer content.

Has anyone else encountered this? Any workarounds or insights would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!