Fr/Percent units for more control over auto layout content

4 years later… Figma plz.

Figma doesn’t care about designers. They care about enterprise. I say we all move to penpot

Would love to understand why such an important feature has been missing all these years. The fact that such a requested and essential feature has been completely ignored is really disheartening.

A key challenge in translating designs to code and creating components that mimic properties like Flexbox is the need for better tools to work with FR units or percentages. This is crucial for delivering precise design specifications to code.

I frequently encounter this issue and resort to creative workarounds or setting fixed values, which undermines efforts to build responsive, adaptable components without relying on multiple variants to address these limitations.

+1
Please solve this, desperately needed

would be super helpful, especially with Figma’s responsive option in the prototype, that would allow us to make better choices earlier on rather than having to make them during development.

Yes, we very much need percentage and/or fr widths. Any kind of modern fluid web design almost requires it!

A release that paired this with CSS grid would go a loooong way toward making it possible to actually build prototypes that reflected the design.

Also: 4 years! 197 replies! Figma, what are you waiting for?

I’d love to have these features so bad by years 😫

This is driving me nuts.
All we want is a grid setup like Webflow. Fr or %.
It’s impossible to create a grid and get a frame to span multiple columns accurately and have it shrink and expand as it should. Auto layout is a punish.

Everyday I wonder why figma can’t just use the DOM HTML model with flexbox, when the end results generally fits this model.  

Please FIGMA!

So people have been asking for this for over 4 years and we still can’t build something as simple as responsive columns with a 1/3 2/3 ratio. Obviously nobody at Figma really cares about responsive design the way actual designers do.

Also, WTF don’t we have the ability to fix background images to top/bottom/left/right so they scale through viewports the way we want them to? This stuff has been simple for CSS forever, but we can’t reproduce it in Figma?

C’mon people!