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Using "Clip content" on frame with Horizontal Auto Layout: Preview falsely "shaves off" top pixel line(s) when on @1x normal resolution displays

  • May 20, 2025
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UX-design-at-Workflow

Reproduction:

  • 1) Parent frame with
    • horizontal auto layout
    • holding chips which have rounded edges
    • Clip Content: OFF
  • ✅ Looks fine on Canvas and Preview on all screens (@1x and @2x)
  • 2) Parent frame
    • —“—
    • —“—
    • Clip Content: ON
  • a) ✅ Canvas looks fine
  • b) ✅ Preview looks identical on @2x high-res display (internal screen, MacBook Air 15’’ 2024)
  • c) ❌ Preview has rendering glitch on @1x normal-res display (external 24’’ display)
    • The top few pixels of the container are “shaved off”.
    • As a consequence the top of chips are also shaved off, and they appear irregular, not regularly rounded anymore.

Suspicion: Some sub-pixel rendering or anti-aliasing function has rounding errors when clipping.

 

Screenshots (from my @1x display):

 

P.S.: I take “Search before you post” very seriously, and found no existing bug report yet. But can say so only with limited certainty as your forum search is currently very limited and needs better search to foster more productive feedback/involvement.

1 reply

ksn
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 1818 replies
  • June 4, 2025

@UX-design-at-Workflow - hi! I reached out to the engineering team that works on rendering, and they want to see what is happening within the file your screenshot was based on.


If possible, can you share edit access to the file that you showed in your original post? If so, please share that with support-share@figma.com, and let me know the name of the file. A screen recording of the whole Figma window that shows the steps you listed out would also be helpful. They (along with support) will be able to take a closer look at what may be going on in the background that’s triggering errors.

 

Let me know when you can. Thank you!


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