With regular horizontal or vertical auto layouts, we can shuffle/move child items of the auto layout using the arrow keys.
Why has this not been implemented in grid auto layout? Users should be able to use the arrow keys to move grid child items up/down rows or left/right columns.
In general, I have been finding grid very hard to work with. It’s very unintuitive to populate a grid with items—you try to drag and drop items into specific spots and the items never land in the spot you tried to drag them to, and then it always ends up adding extra rows or columns. And then once a grid is populated with items, it is extremely difficult to move the items around in it, because it requires that you basically either remove the items from the grid or drag and drop them over one another, and this presents all the problems described above. A user should just be able to move grid child items around with the arrow keys just like any other auto layout,
Keyboard Shortcuts for Moving/Shuffling Items in Grid Layout
Totally agree! I can’t even figure out how to move rows, and I give Figma courses. Is this just not implemented?
I don’t think it has been implemented, which is a big miss IMO. The grid option in auto layout wasn’t made for those of us (the majority of us in the product design/SaaS world) who have to design complicated tables of data. It seems this first release is for people who want a bit more structure for use in a basic website layout. If you look at all the examples they show on the site and in videos, the example content they use in the grid is basic images or text.
Even Miro’s table functionality to add or move rows and columns is more useful right now. Here’s hoping they add this functionality in the next release so I don’t keep wasting time on the Grid feature.
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