Sometimes when you select a group of objects you want to align the group to the parent, rather than the individual objects in your selection. Currently, you can get around this by temporarily creating a group, aligning it and then ungrouping the objects.
It would be more convenient though if you could hold down a keyboard shortcut though. My suggestion would be cmd/ctrl.
Here are examples of aligning two objects.
First, an example of what happens when you align a selection.
Similar to this I would LOVE to have a keyboard shortcut to align multiple objects (in different frames) to their respective parent frames instead of each other.
For example sometimes I have multiple identical components (not literally figma components, more like frames with child objects) where I want to select the same child object in each component/frame and align them horizontally and vertically centered to their respective parent frame.
A key command for this would be amazing! So in addition to the alt + h maybe it’s cmd + alt + h or something.
Yay, this is now a thing. In Figma’s Little Big Updates August 2022, item number 4. You can align things without the need to create a group by holding down the shift key.
