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

Adding my +1 for this. Until it supports hug it’s not really a useful feature.

They should just add the ability to set Coloumns and Rows in an Auto-layout and then we would be happy :) - oh and percentage bases padding/margin and gaps 😁

Grids are so lame and also that it defaults to grids when you add auto-layout to some older designs that are not in an autolayout.

I really cannot understand how this feature went out, beta or not, without this. There is virtually no practical use without it. 

Still no update on this? Really bummed…

it was stupid to add this half feature 

I couldn’t agree more – the lack of Hug Contents and variables for grid gaps are complete deal-breakers for me. I was really hoping grid layout was the solution to the frustration of auto-layout not honoring the layout guide (the artist formerly known as layout grid). I’ve a component currently in production which can’t be faithfully recreated in Figma because of these issues. Perhaps I expect too much from Figma, but if I can open up an inspect panel in Figma like any other browser, I would also like to believe true CSS responsive grid layout would be possible.

I find my way

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1523144515105411077/auto-layout-grid-hug-content-trick
 

just tested and effectively there is no grid, without auto hugging to contents it’s useless

I get it’s beta, but it’s not even usable at all. Wasted like 15 mins trying to find a workaround.

Just tried in Penpot and went flawless pretty much.

The only thing that’s holding me from switching to them is the community which is still growing, and their rendering is still slow at times on my laptop.

I feel penpot could overtake figma if they aren’t careful, feels like figma are concentrating on other products right now (sites, buzz, draw etc), eye off the ball maybe? There are a lot of ideas on the ‘backlog’ that have been sat there for years now that should already be part of Figma.