Set grid row height to "hug" contents

Yes same… we need to add a hug-content to the items

Grids are definitely half-baked. Really impossible to use and don’t really even function like they did in the demo. The no-hug thing is a huge fail, as is only having half of the settings accept variables. How is it they couldn’t do the whole job? This is so typical of Figma anymore. But hey...the price increased. So there is that.

When testing out the new grid inside components, I noticed that there is no option to hug the content vertically. We use instance swaps in things like footer for our designers and it’s not ideal for them to have to manually resize. Would be great if this new feature hugged, otherwise we can’t really use it in a lot of our components in our design system we thought it would be good for.

I'm struggling to find a use case for them. A bento is really the only thing. I need hug also

I’ve ran into the same issue. I was so excited to finally get a grid functionality, but it’s still miles away from the actual `display: grid` in CSS.

In CSS, you can define `grid-template-rows` to have values like `auto` (automatically resize to fit children’s height) or fractional units like `1fr 4fr`, which would tell the grid to have the 2nd row four times taller than the first.

The current functionality of grid in Figma is so lacking that I’m still forced to use nested flexboxes or wrapping.

One of the first bummers I've noticed aswell if I’m not missing something.

I thought we would now be able to create resizable components in other layouts than 50:50.

Like the following component consisting of an image with a locked aspect ratio and some text aside in a two-third / one-third layout. Unfortunately its height does not hug and I would also expect to be able to set the alignment to centred.

 

I was excited to use grids to approximate something basic thats been missing for SO LONG: % widths

Not being able to set height to hug contents is baffling to me. 

Please fix this Figma!

Can anyone even conceive of a reason why they wouldn’t include hug? I can’t wrap my mind around this.

Literally all we needed was the ability to set a child’s % width, and we’d get the benefits of grid with existing wrap functionality 🫠

100%, this was the first thing I wanted to do with grids. I need it to hug contents for truly responsive design. I’ll be going back to using auto-layout until there’s a feature update for this...

Even if you don’t need hug, having to resize the whole grid just to get a certain width and height of all the boxes? what is this shit? Takes away the whole responsiveness excitement I had for this… And of course no variables support...

+1’d 

i applied it to a data table - super powerfull (just populate my cell component) but indeed - missing the HUG → the logical next question however is → if one cell wraps over 2 lines - what happens with the rest of the row (you would still have to manually set all other items in the row to fill then) anyhow would be still very interesting!

I’ll ditto what others have said here. For a long time I’ve wished Figma would add “Fit to Grid” options for width especially. I was excited about this new Grid announcement, but unfortunately it does not allow you to actually create layouts that function like a CSS grid without the hug to contents option for heights. I realize that the hug option would almost need to be assigned to rows rather than to cells.

Data tables are the primary use case I see for grid.  It’s almost impossible to create a responsive data table component with one-dimensional auto layout.

If I had to guess, it’s just more difficult to implement and they had a deadline.

I blindly assumed this would be possible. I consciously noticed it wasn't shown in any of the deep dives or demos. Figma, Grid should accommodate content like equal-height columns or in masonry-type layouts. I think the reasoning to not hug vertically is due to responsive flow order. May need to add in a sort/number to each block within grid to make it work right.

I was at Config and there were sooo many new products but very few new features I have seen users like me request constantly in the forums. I was reallllllly hoping for % based widths.

This is so stupid Figma please add HUG for grid height. What is this….

Yup, this is something I also found basically instantly. I understand grid is in beta, so it’s fine. Would just love to see hugging capabilities is a (near) future update

yes tables, but without hug, you will be manually resizing everything row

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 🤞🏼