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Define default padding for Auto Layout (or set to 0)

  • March 16, 2021
  • 66 replies
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i-kat
  • January 12, 2024

+1 for 0 padding


joshmillgate

+1 for 0 padding


Sacha_WD
  • New Member
  • April 25, 2024

0px please!!!


Tutti_Brutti

+1 for 0px padding
omg pleaseeeeee stop making me delete 10px 10px 10px all day long. Please.


djv
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • April 30, 2024

Hey All, thanks for the feedback and sorry for the lack of acknowledgement here!

We’ll pass this onto the team for future consideration.


let me choose what the default auto layout spacing is, and let this default setting work with variables so i can link it to a specific pre-defined spacing variable


Laura_Fegan

+1 for 0 as default and being able to define (like with nudge amount)


Lauren_Blake

+1 for 0px padding! I kept thinking I messed up some default setting this whole time.


Bobby Kenner
  • New Member
  • January 26, 2025

I felt this too. It’s made worse by padding being more buried/truncated. Setting to 0 by default would be my ask.


Nils8
  • New Member
  • March 25, 2025

Bump !!!!
this is so anoying


ES_Design
  • New Member
  • June 26, 2025

+1 Default Auto layout padding & spacing = 0px


David142
  • New Member
  • September 2, 2025

OMG this is 4 years old?!
Whoever thought that 10 px would be the most common value users would want? 🤔


Nick_Man
  • New Participant
  • September 26, 2025

Classic Figma - an entire 3 pages of discussion where the is basically a consensus among their users… and not action. It’s like they themselves don’t have a UX team sometimes...


Ben_Buckley
  • New Participant
  • November 20, 2025

+1 for 0 padding on auto layout FFS


Matthijs_Rouw
  • New Participant
  • December 10, 2025

I'd op for a configurable default value - if you want 0, you can choose that but I'd like to be able to select a default spacing token from our design system.


Naomi_Adkins
  • New Participant
  • February 5, 2026

+1 (not that it appears to be helping!) 

 

Adding autolayout should NOT change the size of an existing frame. How is that so difficult ☹️

 

There could at least be an option to add auto layout AND not change existing layout (like you’d get removing it). There’s an option to “Suggest Auto Layout” which COULD add a default value, but it shouldn’t with the normal “Shift + A” command.