Fr/Percent units for more control over auto layout content

Add my name to the LOOOOOOOOOONG list. Can’t believe this isn’t a thing already. Should’ve been included day one.

70/30 and 60/40 splits are so common that I can’t believe we have to ask for this as a ‘feature request’. Like what??

Maybe a better solution would be to add support for native css measurement units… IDK how to accomplish this in a designer friendly way, but as a former designer turned developer turned designer again this has been a HUGE pain point for me

Pretty basic CSS scenario TBH

Agree this functionality is over and over requested by users and ignored for novelty functions.

https://forum.figma.com/t/use-percent-for-min-and-max-width/46333/60

Any updates on this?

Hey @Bennett_Frazier! I sorted out a workaround using a group instead of a frame as the parent container. I’m not entirely sure why it works, but if you wrap rectangles or frames in a group (and set the constraints properly) you can get that scaling working. Then you can set that group to fill container inside of a frame with auto-layout…

One caveat though is that it’s is a bit of a manual process to re-size the sections since groups don’t support auto layout 😕 … but they will scale proportionally once you get them set. 🤷

I’m starting to think this might be a good candidate for a plugin… 🧑‍💻

Would I plugin like this be possible? I don’t know much about the plugin api.

I haven’t looked into it too deeply, but the plugin presentations from Config this year made it seem like a fairly simple process, at least for something like this.

Amongst everyone I - and my eng team, as they keep requesting - would love to be able to use percentage widths to correspond better to how our code is written.

+1 max-min for width\height best need