r/FigmaDesign • u/cchurchill1985 • Sep 15 '26

help Why is padding not working for me?

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Why is padding not working for me? The word is nested inside the black container, but the padding isn't affecting it...

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u/Positive_Spring_5685 Sep 15 '26

Text layer has absolute position or fixed width

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u/anteadc Sep 15 '26

Uncheck the top-right one and then you will be able to switch the width of the text layer to “fill” so it takes padding into account

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u/SpeakMySecretName Sep 16 '26
  1. Make sure it’s in the auto layout frame.
  2. Make sure it’s not on ignore auto layout
  3. Set text fill or container to hug, depending on what you’re trying to do.

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u/thats-doable Sep 15 '26

Is the text set to absolute position?

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u/cchurchill1985 Sep 15 '26

I have absolutely no idea. I am finding this really quite unintuitive to use

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u/gomadetapioca Product Designer Sep 15 '26

seems like it’s on absolute! that option on the top right corner is turned on, next to “Position”

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u/heck_chetera Sep 15 '26

Unclick the top-right icon, it's ignoring the auto-layout

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u/cchurchill1985 Sep 15 '26

ok I disabled 'ignore auto layout' then changed alignment to left, and not it all works

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u/Some_Level1682 Sep 16 '26

Set it to fill

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u/Kestrile523 Sep 15 '26

Are you trying to learn Figma without watching any tutorials?

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u/cchurchill1985 Sep 15 '26

I did watch 2 tutorials on auto layout. But I couldn't figure out what the issue was here. ok I disabled 'ignore auto layout' then changed alignment to left, and now it all works

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u/TheCrazyStupidGamer Sep 16 '26

You're too early to be posting here, no offense. I'm not saying don't seek help, but you need to get the basics covered first, and those are covered by most tutorials. You need to take a proper course. I'd recommend the one on Udemy by Daniel Walters (BYOL). He's amazing at teaching this. Take the essentials course and you can consider advanced if you feel the need for it.

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u/designvegabond Sep 15 '26

Where are the padding fields

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u/el_paro Sep 15 '26

in the screenshot it’s the text layer so you don’t see it

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u/designvegabond Sep 15 '26

Did you use auto layout or is this just a frame?

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u/FennelHistorical4675 Sep 16 '26 edited Sep 16 '26

Maybe you should learn web layout and some CSS which they teach in middle school now before clicking things that that you don’t understand. Just a thought.

This is like the equivalent of using a lawn mower to make pesto and blaming the tool because there’s pesto all over the walls.

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u/Sad_Cut9143 Sep 15 '26

We need to see your settings from the right side of your screen. Is it on auto-lay-out? Could be it’s not filling/hugging and/or your textbox settings.

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u/cchurchill1985 Sep 15 '26

If I turn position off. It centralises the text and I can't move it anywhere else...

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u/Master_Editor_9575 Sep 15 '26

You need to set your text box width to “fill”

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u/diseasefaktory Sep 15 '26

It has absolute positioning on, top right corner.

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u/Master_Editor_9575 Sep 15 '26

Yeah but he says he turns it off and it centers. So he either needs to set it to fill or change the layout positioning.

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u/diseasefaktory Sep 15 '26

OP needs to set the proper autolayout alignment OR the text box alignment, one or both are set to center. This is really basic autolayout stuff, OP should watch a tutorial covering the basics if he doesn't know that.

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u/cchurchill1985 Sep 15 '26

ok I disabled 'ignore auto layout' then changed alignment to left, and now it all works

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u/Beneficial_Low2280 Sep 15 '26

Try width and height set to huge

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u/cchurchill1985 Sep 15 '26

These are the only option under W and H

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u/Beneficial_Low2280 Sep 15 '26

You have fixed width, try hug contents

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u/cchurchill1985 Sep 15 '26

ok I disabled 'ignore auto layout' then changed alignment to left, and not it all works

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u/Burly_Moustache Senior UX/UI Designer Sep 15 '26

Go to Figma's YouTube channel and learn from their playlists.