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Hilal Aflad
New Member
October 16, 2026
Question

"Updated" auto-layout breaks center strokes

I have a brutalist style design that involves lines and strokes and depends on a specific relationship between different elements with strokes. To achieve that, I have been using centered strokes since they run perfectly centered on the element’s edges, and adjacent touching/tangent elements’ strokes meet up perfectly without doubling - simple and straightforward, no extra work needed to adapt the physical dimensions of the elemens for the stroke or choose different stroke positions for different elements.

But recently I noticed that the elements get overlayed on top of their parent’s stroke, and to “fix” that I have to enable “Clip content” - which in turn breaks a lot of other elements within the stroked element that depended on out of bounds design elements, like frame edge/corner decorations.

Let me know whether this is unintended behavior, and whether I can expect it to be fixed. Otherwise let me know whether there’s any way for this to be remedied while maintaining stroke position consistency.
 

The problem. The gray element overlays the parent element’s stroke. “Fixed” by enabling “Clip content”,  but I deliberately turned it off to preserve out-of-bounds design elements of children like custom borders and corners with “Ignore auto-layout” position.
The expectation. Parent’s stroke overlays on top of its children. I had to enable “Legacy” layout only to visually present the expected behavior.