Fr/Percent units for more control over auto layout content

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I really don’t understand, how it is possible to have auto layout without the percentages. I mean, if we want to create truly responsive layouts, it’s simply impossible to do it with the absolute values (or simply assume, that all the widths should be equal). I was really surprised it wasn’t the part of the min/max and wrap update, it’s directly connected and not fully usefull without it.

Absolutely need percentages.

Like the other post, definitely need to define a percentage for the width of a child element in its container. Or height. Or anything. Even spacing should be flexible – %, vw, vh, etc.

Definitely needed for responsive designs, please add this functionality Figma

This is why im looking at penpot/framer. Im sorry but ever since adobe bought Figma things just slowed right down. Im glad you eventually added variables/tokens. But its almost too little and too late. It still lacks a lot…Then we have this feature…WHICH IS MUCH NEEDED! and is not rocket science to add … the community has obviously made you aware about its need over 2.5 years ago…but alas we are just shouting into the void!

For lists and table views, I usually create components for row-items in a list. Then I stack the list items vertically to make the list. When a list has multiple “columns”, you can set cell width using a fixed-width frame for each cell. That’s great for one page size but if I stretch the row-item horizontally, I want to control how cells in the row stretch. Some may need to remain fixed-width. Some will stretch to claim the extra available horizontal space.

If there’s only one cell in the list item that stretches horizontally, setting that one cell to “fill” works because it just claims all the horizontal space available to it.

But if you have multiple columns of different widths that need to stretch, the only option for stretching the cells is to set the auto-layout cell frame to “fill”, but that makes all cells resolve to the same width. I need them to fill the horizontal space up proportionately. Column A: 20%, Column B: 30%, Column C: 50%, for example.

It would be great if the widths of horizontal auto-layout frames inside another horizontal auto-layout frame could divide the horizontal space proportionally with percentage widths.

It’s a lot easier concept than it sounds. It seems like a basic need. Maybe I’m missing something in Figma. Maybe there’s another way to do what I’m looking for?

yes, it’s required often

Yes! I googled and landed here while working on table column widths 🙂

It makes me so frustrated that this feature is not added. We want to build up our design like we would code them with HTML and CSS and for this we need the units to make it a bit responsive.

Edit: Or something like CSS GRID, to better visualise design that have odd layouts like 4 columns to 8 and so on. Its a shame, you could connect it to the existing grid. So many opportunities. Really hope this is going to be added soon.

Will this ever be resolved!!?