[LAUNCHED] Set grid row height to "hug" contents

Use Auto Layout Vertically Instead of Row Grids

• Create a parent frame with vertical auto layout

• Set each “row” or section to Hug Contents

• Control spacing with gap or padding

• Forget Figma's visual row grid entirely

🔸 Bonus: You can still overlay a custom guide system (e.g., horizontal lines) using vector lines or helper frames if you need visual row cues.

🔧 Alternative Trick (Manual Grids with Auto Layout)

• Use rectangles or lines as faux "grid rows" with labels

• Nest auto-layout frames inside that respect content height

• This gives you the visual feel of a grid with the flexibility of hugging content

As the grid cannot be set to fill for width and height, it’s not truly responsive. Would love to see an update on this one to match dev grids better! 💃

Ah I’m incorrect lol, I think the real update I want here is to delete my past forum replies 😂

This. I imagined grids would work like they do in CSS and finally replace the need for nested auto-layout frames in Figma. Rows and columns should accept hug and min/max values, without it we’re left fidgeting with the numbers or simply continue using nested frames to handle layout grids.

I hope this makes it in the next update 🤞🏼

I’ve ran into the same issue. 

The new grid function is so bad and is worse than the previous verison.

Figma Grid is missing the option to input a variable in the gap field:

 

We need to be able to give this parameter a Token.

Hi ​@Tiziano,

Thanks so much for reaching out and for taking the time to explore our newly released Grid. We’re excited to see your early engagement and value your feedback.

Our Engineering team has reviewed this closely and confirmed that the behavior you’re seeing is a known issue. The good news is that it’s already on our radar and has been prioritized as future release. 

I’ve also personally shared your feedback directly with our Product and Engineering teams for future improvements. So, let me change the category into “Suggest a feature”.

We’ll keep you updated as we make progress and will share more details as soon as they become available. In the meantime, feel free to reach out if there’s anything else I can support you with.

Thanks again,

Toku

this is definitely a tablestake that should have shipped