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koulini_k_satya
koulini_k_satya
September 6, 2023

Auto layouts for FigJam (Sections)

  • September 6, 2023
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I love sections because they easily help organize content, but they become less powerful as compared to a traditional group without the power of auto-layouts.

Adding new content to a section always involves slowly moving everything else around (usually down) and having to always resize it manually. Having the option of toggling on/off something like auto-layouts for sections would really boost productivity!

    4 replies

    Heather_Peters
    Heather_Peters
    May 31, 2024

    Same here! Would love to be able to auto-layout sections, as I am constantly copying one screen and pasting it for the next part of a flow. But I had to do all the tedious work of aligning it when I have to resize, move screens around in order of the flow, etc. This would save me a ton of work!

    Bonita
    Bonita
    New Member
    August 20, 2024

    YESSS! But not only in FigJam – I like to organise my frames in Sections or Frames, but for prototyping they can’t be grouped in a frame which means I have to settle with sans-auto-layout Sections. Adding auto layout to Sections would keep my prototyped frames neat within sections, too!

      Ashley
      Ashley
      New Participant
      February 22, 2025

      For me the problem is more specific. When I’ve got stickies in a Section and I create a new one, say by hitting cmd-enter from the one I’ve just finished typing, the new sticky always appears to the right. If it’s in a section, it should wrap at the section edge and start a new row.

        Jace
        Jace
        New Participant
        December 30, 2025

        For anybody who still urgently needs this, I've made a plugin that does this for you. It uses the native Figma Auto Layout API and applies it to sections.


        https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1586533723361954317/section-layout

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