Hi everyone, in this video we'll go from having... one column down the middle as a grid, super helpful... to having rows as well, looks like where's Waldo, or where's Wally... depending on where you're from... but these little stripy guys are super helpful for getting consistent layout... using our lovely 8-point grid.

All right, first up, I think I was messing around with my layout there... didn't quite get it to the edge of the column... and I'm going to make sure that this one's stuck on this side... and what I also want to do is, grids are good... I don't use them very often, I show you because lots of people do... so what I'm going to do for this event card here is I'm actually going to turn my--  I'm going to take off my grid...

I've got it as a style that I can use later on and apply... going to turn it off for the moment... I'm going to show you why I like rows better... they're not really better, just visually less confusing, for me, at least. I'll use my 'F' key for a frame... draw out, it's going to be my top navigation.

I'm just going to drag it to the top and the sides... while I'm here my mind says make it top and-- sorry, make it left and right... so that it resizes with the frame... I'm going to give it a Fill color, going to give it any old color for the moment... and now that it's left and right constraints... it's going to resize, perfect...

but how high did I make it? I just made it random height that looked okay... and it was 55, but I want to be consistent, I want to use 8-point grid... there's enough flexibility in there to get the size I want... I'm going to be able to be consistent across devices and different projects... so let's turn on our rows.

so I'm going to click on the outside frame... at the moment there's a style applied to it, so I can't add another one... so I'm going to say, actually, let's break this... because I want to keep the column... but I want to add another one, not a grid... but I want to add rows, rows are strange, not strange...

but at the moment they are stretching, so I've got five of them, 'Shift 2'... five of them... let's close this down, 'Shift 2' to see the thing I've got selected... and there's five of them, and it kind of stretches to fit... and that works for columns but not so much for rows... because rows, I can scroll up and down the screen as long as I like...

it's not a fixed size. So what I'm going to do is, going to click on it, I'm going to edit these rows... and I'm going to say you're not stretchy, you're going to just stick to the top... and I want you to be a height of 8, with a gutter of 8 as well... and it's kind of working, they're up there, you just need lots more of them... how many more?

Just put in a giant number, 100... as long as it covers your whole frame... you can put in 200, doesn't really matter, just kind of goes off into infinity... you can see how that is... for me, I've got my constraints for my column, left and right... and now I've got my rows, and now it allows me, kind of like the grid...

but less messy. So I can just go, you, it snaps to it, so I can say, 48... it's perfect, it's close enough to that random, 50 something I picked... and now with these items I can start laying these out... and snapping them to the top... same with the bottom of it, if I decide that the bottom of this needs to be...

how high? It's going to snap to my 8-point grid... what's the spacing I want between them? Let's say it is 16 points, I need... my event card has a white thing inside of it, let's change that from white... 'Frame 2', I'm just going to use a darker color so that down here it's more...

more visually viewable, "It's not a word, Dan"... but it means that, can you see, I can--  I'm holding 'Shift' to make sure it goes up and down... I actually need to, just drag it around, and I know it's 16 between the two... if you want to match the outside, I can drag it one more to get my 24... there we go, rows are better than grids, in my opinion. This one's not lining up...

so I'm just going to delete this guy and go, you... there we go, 24, nice... remember to check, select on the actual thing... hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac, 'Alt' key on a PC, and then... kind of hover above the component above it, look at that, it's 24, perfect. 'Shift 1' to see everything, let's click on this, 'Shift 2'...

and it looks like, where's Waldo, or where's Wally, where I'm from... kind of stripy red and white... but that's only handy when you are laying things out... when you're trying to design, they're in the way... what's the shortcut to make sure it goes away, that's right, 'Shift G'. So that's using rows and columns, you can see, my top one is not enough...

so that's rows and columns in Figma, and grids if you want to use them... all right, on to the next video.