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Yezgi_Baha
New Member
April 8, 2024
Question

Ability to add/remove/re-order items in an auto-layout component

  • April 8, 2024
  • 25 replies
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This is a reference to a topic that was closed without resolution:

I can’t express how frustrating it is when a designer has to detach one of your components simply to add a tab in-between existing tabs or a dropdown option above existing ones.

When I build a component I shouldn’t have to create 10 hidden layers as placeholders to make sure that the component works for a design with 2 dropdown options or 10 options. I should be able to include 1-2 items in the component and let designers add/remove more from there.

Lack or re-ordering capability combined with the lack of add/remove capability for items in an auto-layout component means our components continue to get detached shortly after use. It defeats the purpose of maintaining a component library. It becomes a template library instead.

    25 replies

    Mark Bender
    New Member
    July 17, 2025

    I’d like to add my voice to those asking for this feature.  Seems like it should be pretty easy -- Figma already supports this given I’m rearranging / adding / removing auto-layout items outside of a component.  I understand you’d want to be able to turn this on or off, as I wouldn’t want to accidentally be rearranging elements inside a component when attempting to drag the component.  But maybe I can designate a particular type of “list” auto-layout, that lets me add / edit / rearrange / delete an array of whatever child element is inside that list component? 

    Emma_Gunnar
    New Member
    October 8, 2025

    Please add this, the ability to rearrange without detaching is critical for scaling design systems/promoting adherence. 

    jamestroutman
    New Member
    October 8, 2025

    Please add this feature!

    Dominick Miller
    New Member
    October 8, 2025

    This would be a very helpful feature for our team to more effectively manage the designs.

    Tyler Carolan
    New Member
    October 8, 2025

    This feature would be really helpful, please add it!

    Marcus Ruether
    New Member
    October 8, 2025

    Implementing this would solve a massive frustration for our team.

    Shawna_Sayar
    New Member
    October 8, 2025

    Can’t express how important something like this would be - please add

    Urmika Banerjee
    New Member
    October 8, 2025

    Please add this feature  , it will be so helpful!!

    Jessica_Snelling_FG-AM-63
    New Member
    December 1, 2025

    Please add this feature

    dcp3450
    New Member
    December 12, 2025

    I’m coming from XD where this is possible. Figma is a fine fall back to XD but this lack of a feature makes it feel less of a professional tool. If my company wanted to switch to a product that offered this feature I’d support the switch even if that meant a difficult migration. I have a simple table component so we can maintain borders, spacing, etc. across application designs but if a designer needs to add a column, shift buttons, add a menu option, or any other simple adjustment for that screen design, they have to detach it. This is a fundamental feature the tool is lacking.