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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

    Byrne.Studio
    New Member
    January 31, 2026

    Any movement on this at all? This would be an absolute game changer as a designer of design systems, flexible components etc.

    SPeterson
    New Member
    February 4, 2026

    YES PLEASE!!! Rearranging cards in a card row or tabs in a tab group should be something we can do instantly in a stakeholder meeting or design review. Having to either detach the component or manually re-enter all properties in a series just to see what happens if we put things in a different order is so unnecessarily time consuming.

    Yuri Salvador
    New Member
    February 18, 2026

    We urgently need a way to reorder items inside a autolayout child component. 

    Lauren A
    New Member
    February 25, 2026

    Yes please!! Upvote!

    twierenga
    New Member
    March 31, 2026

    Upvote! I would love to have this for complex and repeating components as well. This makes it way less likely for detaches, and while I understand instances help with this, it would be nice to be able to just use the arrow key to move like table rows, or a body paragraph around without redoing the content in an instance.