Hello Figma!
I can not change the direction of the Autolayout on the instances of a component. I can not understand why such a great feature is disabled on the instances and why not allow us to overwrite it?
There are so many incidents that I would have wished to be able to change the direction of the Autolayout in the instances of the component but right now I have to create multiple variants. 😦
Hey All, thank you for your continued feedback!
Right now, you cannot directly override an auto layout direction on a component instance in Figma because the layout direction (horizontal or vertical) is locked to the Main Component. But there are temporary solutions to allow you to change the auto layout direction:
Hope this helps clarify and gives you a couple of new options to try! If there are any promising updates from the team on when or if this can be implemented, we’ll be sure to provide an update.
It’s crazy to think how much more efficient my workflow would be by allowing this single feature. Figma, if you’re listening, please implement this.
+1 especially now that Slots are here. I want to be able to override Slot auto-layouts.
(Right now I am adding empty frames with auto-layouts to every Slot so that component users can freely change auto-layout settings there. This is so dumb.)
This request was posted earlier on the forum. Please vote for this idea here: Override auto layout direction on the instances.
That link directs to this page. (Maybe it was later merged into this one.)
Hi
Apologies for the confusion. Yes, these topics were merged together.
To answer your question, we moved to a new forum platform last January 2025, which removed our previous voting feature.
This is a feature we are reviewing and intend to re-introduce in the forum. But we are unable to provide a timeline for that right now.
In the meantime, feel free to add a comment with your specific why or a simple +1. Our teams monitor the suggest a feature category and use the feedback from the community to advocate for future features.
+1
ok, please add me to the list of users who’d like to see this happen… 8-)
Really needed for slots
+1
+1
Hey All, thank you for your continued feedback!
Right now, you cannot directly override an auto layout direction on a component instance in Figma because the layout direction (horizontal or vertical) is locked to the Main Component. But there are temporary solutions to allow you to change the auto layout direction:
Hope this helps clarify and gives you a couple of new options to try! If there are any promising updates from the team on when or if this can be implemented, we’ll be sure to provide an update.
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