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Although I find the new autolayout UI extremely convoluted and overdesigned, the ‘hug/fill parent’ feature is great. However, It would be immensely helpful to have more control over how the elements fill the parent.


Currently, the only option is for the elements to fill the remaining space, but oftentimes, I need certain elements to take up a certain proportion.


Example: I need element-1 to take up 2fr (~66%) and the rest to take up 1fr (~33%). It would be a game-changer if we could use ‘fr’ units.


Framer does this beautifully and it’s vital for efficient, adaptive layout workflows:


It’s kinda of incredible this hasn’t been prioritized yet. I’d be really curious what stopped it. There must be a technical reason this is difficult for them because it’s an obviously missing feature

need this feature.

Totally needed! Especially since it’s doable in code.

+1

Fingers crossed for an announcement on this at Config 🤞

Absolute shame on Figma for once again neglecting this.

Hm, sad that they again didn’t announce something like that at Config. I wonder how they expect us to do it then? Should we use Autolayout grids for that (if possible)? Should we use the cumbersome layout columns? Or am I missing something? Why are they avoiding this? If “fill” already works, then “30% of parent width” should also work…

Don’t get me wrong, these are great products they announced put a good round of “little big updates” would have made me even happier. And I assume fraction- or percentage-values could be one of those.

+1000

+100000

Please

+1000000000

4 years later and nothing

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