Anyone else having this bug, where things you paste, or randomly-based, overflow the container?
Every time y paste things auto layout seems to behave the worst way possible.
And as soon as you double click the component or break it, it gets fixed.
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Hi! Auto-layout has been very broken for a while now. The symptom I see most often is āfill containerā not filling container, and Iāve seen three things that cause it, though not every time:
- changing auto-layout direction from vertical to horizontal or vice-versa
- changing a component instance to a different variant
- accepting updates from a library change (for component instances with auto-layout)
The third is by far the worst, as it can essentially break any instanceās auto-layout anywhere on the page. Iām forever finding broken auto-layouts. If itās in an instance, usually double clicking on the offending layer fixes it. If itās not an instance, you need to select the broken layer, change it to Hug or Fixed, then reset it to Fill.
The Figma folks are surely aware of this bug. Itās impossible to use auto-layout on a regular basis and not see this happen.
I wrote a script (to run in the Scripter plugin) that fixes this (at least temporarily) for all objects on a page or in the current selection. I run it before presenting any design.
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Iām having the same issue, itās super frustating and it also breaks when you update any component inside that parent component. Iāve seen it occurs mostly with text elements with āfill-containerā value
I hope they fix it soon, itās impossible to work fast with this issue.
note: to avoid double clicking on the components try cmd+click on the text thatās causing the overflow.
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Same problem, and every day got more and more objects broken 
. First results of Adobe buy Figma? 
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Figma still ruins filled objects. Thanks to @JosephxBrick for the script.
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@Figma_Support Iām gonna report every day till this bug would be fixed. Bug is extremely annoying, so why I canāt be so?
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Bumping this.
My entire team has been running into this bug a lot. It also appears in Prototype view which makes user testing a pain.
Workaround:
For some reason you just need to select the object that is broken to fix (as shown in the loom video)
An easy fix is to just select all the elements with a page and hit āenterā as many times as needed to get to the bottom-most component. That should fix all the fill wonkiness within the page for a little bit.
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Has anyone heard anything new regarding this bug? Itās extremely frustrating! There are also other components with āfill containerā that turns into āfixedā when used elsewhere. Here the double click-thing doesnāt work at all, no matter how many things I try. These bugs make it really hard to use and develop the system that Iām currently working on.
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Seems like figma went radio-silence on this
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@Figma_Support a status update on this would be highly appreciated! <3
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if you guys can report the bug on figma, I did, here is how https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041468234-Submit-a-bug-report
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Quick fix that is working for us ATM, grab all those screens (frames) that are causing troubles.
1 - Hit command + X
2 - Hit command + V
3 - command + Z (until you revert the pasting and cropping)
Last step is to prevent you from loosing prototype connections, or frame links losses
In my case I grabbed all the sections (Shift + S ones) and cropped. them with the same technique detailed above ^
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@Figma_Support This is a very frustrating bug, please for the love of everything, find a fix for this. Every time I publish a library thatās being used by dozens of designers across different teams, I stress the heck out as it gives me 0 confidence that my update wonāt cause breaking changes.
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@Figma_Support, bug is still there, omg, almost 4 months of pain
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@Figma_Support Iām also running into this problem pretty regularly. Could this group please get some acknowledgement that the issue is being noted by Figma? I understand it may take time to fix and there are likely other priorities. Just acknowledgement that itās been noted would be great, thanks! 
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Itās crazy to think that this is an industry standard piece of software, and yet thereās not even a reply. And itās not just here. Iāve seen similar threads on it. No reply.
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Iām still having this problem - has there been any work arounds yet? pills are breaking in client presentationsā¦ not good
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Bug is still alive @Figma_Support , guys, please, do something
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@Figma_Support, bug is STILL there
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Bug is still here! What is the priority in the backlog to fix this issue?
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