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Luke-Larson
December 10, 2024

Default Section Settings

  • December 10, 2024
  • 6 replies
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I would love to be able to change the default fill / stroke color / and corner rounding of sections within Figma. I find myself spending a lot of time adjusting sections after initial creation to the way I like them throughout my files.

6 replies

Natalie Wood
New Member
February 26, 2025

Adding to this - being able to adjust the default section padding like we can for the nudge amount! Mine has a default of 80 and it’s too tight, so I’d need to manually adjust it every time and no one has time for that.

 

Auto-layout within sections would also save so much time.

colleenwynn
New Member
February 26, 2025

I WHOLLY support both of the above comments ^ updating the default fill/stroke/corners for sections + adding a setting for the default section padding would be a significant time saver.

Maybe also a setting for the default margin/gutter between frames within a section? I prefer there to be 100px between each frame, but when I copy and paste a frame, Figma automatically places the new frame 40px away.

wgo
Active Member
August 19, 2025

+1, Oh please, I’d love to have the default style for sections.

Luka N
New Member
September 9, 2025

+1 — the same way that we have “Set default properties” for text, we should be able to do the same for sections. Additionally, I agree that auto-layout within sections would be incredibly valuable.

Markus7
New Member
January 13, 2026

+1 this would make life sooooo much easier. And it’s surely no rocket-science to implement ;)

Please do this!

Art_Klepchukov
New Participant
September 30, 2026

Less nondeterministic AI slop, more sensible workflow improvements like this that affect every single designer adding virtually anything to any existing Figma file where repeating yourself is the path of least resistance.