‘Absolute position’ is now called ‘ignore auto layout’, ‘space between’ is called ‘auto’ and there are probably a few other settings that Figma has applied its own naming to.

Why?

It’s bad enough that layout and styling in Figma does not behave like CSS and HTML in many cases, which means that we have to completely rethink our approach to design. Now we have learn new terminology as well.

Even for somebody who doesn’t know CSS, I would assume that it hardly makes any difference which term they learn. It would even be an advantage if they learn the correct CSS terminology, so if they do learn CSS one day (which, in my opinion, would be highly beneficial), they don’t have to learn new terminology for everything.

If I could make a wish, it would be to please align terminology and behaviour between Figma and real-world CSS wherever possible.