Use percentages for heights, widths, paddings, gutters in auto layout

I agree this would be an incredible time saver and make communication with dev really clear

Really, 2 years 75 votes and nothing?

With the new responsive in prototype feature this is a must to create fluid designs without plugins. C’mon Figma do your magic!

This has been posted a hundred times before. People have been asking Figma for this for YEARS. Hard to get votes when it has already been voted on a bunch of times.

I support you! It is definitely needed! VOTED.

I logged in just to vote for this feature. It should be the top priority. Design and consideration for different screen sizes have always been requirements for professionals. Percentage, at least in auto layout, would be the greatest update since auto layout itself

How is this not a thing?

Add this already! This would be such a great - basic - option to have. Working with percentages is a much better practice and it mirrors how layouts actually get built during development. You do not want to hard-code pixel values or work on the assumption that a desktop or a phone would have x:y aspect ratio most of the time - that’s bad practice!

Oh it would be a dream! how easy it would be the responsive behaviour of uneven layouts with percentage matching the grid! I have always a tone amount of extra work with sliders in different breakpoints. Do we have any solution on this yet?

I’m not sure if this has already been requested, but I still wanted to share this idea.

Right now you can use Fill container to make elements responsive inside an Autolayout frame. But what if I want 1 element to be larger/smaller than the rest, but still responsive (so not using fixed)?

For example: you can set the width of a child element to 50% relative to its parent frame, which uses auto layout, while leaving the other elements set to Fill Container. This way, when the design is scaled down, the layout adjusts automatically without requiring you to apply a new fixed width each time you scale up or down.

This approach would make creating responsive designs much easier and faster. It would also improve the handoff to development, as developers can directly use percentage units in the CSS. There’s no need to explain how you want the responsiveness to work, since the units are already built into the design.

I need this! Also seems to be related to these threads about %:

Yes, this would be helpful. Would be even better if this aligns to the layout grid. You can set a layout grid within Figma, but when setting up containers with auto-layout, it is not possible to align them on the grid. Except for manually, but that’s not responsive.