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Antoine
Antoine
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May 19, 2022

"Empty" Auto Layout Frame keeps the size of last hidden child

  • May 19, 2022
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Hi, I’m not sure if this is new since the May update, but I wonder why “empty” (all elements hidden) Auto Layout Frames keep the size of the last hidden child (and I do not mean last in the list, but the last element to have been toggled out of view by the user), making them not-0px high even with nothing in them.

See here a file with a Frame with three hidden rectangle: the Frame keeps the size of the last child rectangle to have been hidden. When adding a 0-px Frame to the AL frame, and toggling this 0-px Frame off last, the container goes 0-px.

In my opinion, empty AL Frames should have a height of 0. What do you think?

    Pinned Reply By djv

    Hey All, thanks for your continued feedback, and we apologize for the confusion caused by this!

    As mentioned above, this is behavior is currently a known feature limitation in Figma.
    We do not allow Auto layout frames to collapse to 0 when the child layers are hidden, so it is expected that the frame will remain sized as if they were shown.

    Again, the team’s original solution was more complicated than they originally anticipated. They will need more bandwidth and more heads to collaborate to get this working as expected.

    Our team is still actively tracking this as a feature request and quality improvement for future prioritization. Rest-assured that every new comment is being added to our our open report to give this topic more visibility so that it can be pushed to the top of the team’s priority list.

    We’ll be sure to provide an update as soon as we can, but also keep an eye out on our future releases .

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    Kerry_Johnson
    Kerry_Johnson
    Active Member
    June 24, 2026

    ​@Kerry_Johnson agree, but I would argue that it should just be the default. I cant think of any reason why I would want it to be not-zero.

    Agreed for new layers.

    Paulo Cholla
    Paulo Cholla
    New Member
    August 3, 2026

    wow, 3 years and nothing?

    i can picture the PMs and C-Levels telling the team to prioritize AI or whatever other features to get new customers instead of keeping the current ones happy. maybe it holds up until the next UI software really focus on solving basic issues their heavy users have

    Michael Dralle
    Michael Dralle
    New Member
    August 7, 2026

    Keeping this issue alive until it’s finally fixed. It’s an annoying issue in daily work again and again and again.

    Ide idrees
    Ide idrees
    New Participant
    August 8, 2026

    Yeah, I can see why this would be confusing. If all the children are hidden, I’d expect the Auto Layout frame to collapse to 0 rather than retain the size of whichever child was hidden last. That behavior seems unintuitive, especially when the frame is being used inside a larger responsive layout.

    Lea.P
    Lea.P
    New Participant
    September 3, 2026

    Still an issue? Figma? Really? Come on …

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