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cameronsuorsa
Oct 25, 2022 7:51 PM UTC

Add auto layout to Sections

There are times when having sections free of constraints is nice… but my design team has become addicted to using auto layout with frames. In many cases when using sections, it would be amazing to perfectly space the inner sections out using auto layout.

101 replies

Ellaine_Gabotero
Jul 14, 2023 1:59 PM UTC

I’m gonna ride this train, count me in

Best,
Jul 17, 2023 1:37 PM UTC

+1 !

I use sections for our component library, as they nicely display the name of a component and their own name adjusts to the zoom level.
Without auto-layout though, its a bit of a mess 🙂

Samantha_Mazzei
Jul 27, 2023 10:25 AM UTC

It would be awesome to have hug option in width option list and auto layout with paddings and gap for sections as for a frame

Jul 27, 2023 2:28 PM UTC

I just wanted to bump @Josh_Rhode’s comment above – I love using Figma for slides, but right now changing the order of the slides is a pain as I have to manually slide all the ones after it down, etc.

Auto layout would solve this immediately, but I can’t frame the slides for two reasons:

  • It will break the plugin I use to sync the slides to Google Slides
  • It will break clickthrough, like Josh mentioned

Having auto layout on sections would solve this neatly! 🤞

John_Marstall
New Member
Aug 1, 2023 3:33 PM UTC

Now that Figma is encouraging use of sections in Figma design via the “Ready for dev” section indicator, it’s more important than ever that designers be able to integrate sections into the process of laying out our design specs. Translating from an autolayout-based format to one devoid of autolayout makes this challenging.

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Dustin_Hansen2
Active Member
Sep 6, 2023 7:48 PM UTC

I was happy when I realized you could put all your screens into one big parent frame with auto-layout, so then duplicating screens and moving them around was effortless. But. It breaks prototyping / flows, which is based on the top-level frames. 😦

I feel like this is a separate problem that should be fixed. But. Having auto layout on sections would probably make this a non-issue.

Thomas_Silcher
New Member
Sep 8, 2023 1:27 PM UTC

We really need this feature to be added. Currently there is still a lot of overhead manually resizing sections because such a feature is missing. Please add this to you backlog Figma devs! 🙏

Tomas_Soltes
Sep 29, 2023 10:41 AM UTC

+1 Need this!

Alaa_Zorkane
Oct 2, 2023 3:29 AM UTC

It seems like this feature is probably the most wanted feature right now lol - just came here to add my support to the community, auto layout on sections would be huge!

_nico
Oct 5, 2023 7:38 PM UTC

This would definitely be a great addition to the sections feature. We really need this asap, would change completely how I use sections and upgrade my work flow. 🙂