Hi everyone, have you got an Auto layout... but you need some custom spacing between a couple of them... disclaimer, at the recording of this video, there is no official way... there is hacks, there's three of them, they all kind of work... let's start with the easiest. Let's do it with text first, if it's got a bit of text...

going to turn it into a component... I'm going to duplicate it, 'Command D', or 'Ctrl D', 'D', 'D', let's have five... I'll change the text, you wait there... bunch of text, let's make it an Auto layout, 'Shift A'... now we can adjust the spacing... but at the moment, doesn't matter what you hold down...

you can't do separate padding, at the moment... it's one of those other features that I feel like... so many people are doing hacks for, that it'll be out soon. All right, hack one, is I've got this instance in here... I want to space between these two, right? is it's actually set to a fixed height...

so I can actually say, My Tickets is bigger... you can have a space in there, there you go, that's hack one... for some reason my Auto layout is set to a fixed height... remember how to double click it on the edge, to get it to hug, easy... so that's hack number one, I'm going to undo that, that works most of the time... another one, and really common one is, to use an invisible frame...

so 'F' key, put it the height that you want... that's good enough for me, whatever height that is, 88, perfect... accidentally stumbled across 8-pt pixel grid... and it has no Fill, no Stroke, but I can still drag it and put it in there... and it keeps the space going... again, I'm going to have to double click it to go to Hug...

and then you can just use this to do your spacing... remember, 'Shift O' is a really good outline view... so that you can then see it a bit better. You still need to account for this, for the padding... so if you need it to be 88... you've got to minus whatever your space between here is...

and mine is set to 21, which is not great, say it's 16... 16 at the bottom, 16 at the top... plus what's in the middle, that's going to give me my spacing... anything wrong with that? No, not really... you can tie it in with a hack from earlier on, can select on this invisible frame...

hold down the 'Command' or 'Ctrl' key, remember, up and down does the height... up and down, and you can kind of just get it going... and if you hold 'Shift' it'll do in 8-point steps, handy. Hack number three... what we can do is, we can say, you three are in an Auto layout, 'Shift A'... you are also in an Auto layout, 'Shift A'...

so I've got the parent frame but I've also got these two things on the inside... and we looked at this earlier, if I grab the parent frame and I make it bigger... nothing really happens, why?... because they're packed in there, remember, there's an option for Auto layouts... under Advanced Auto layout Settings... and instead of Packed we can go to 'Space Between'...

will try and spread them out... and these guys are kind of trapped inside their own Auto layouts... and it puts in this giant gap in the middle. This one's handy because it will try and force itself down the bottom... so depending on what you're doing this might work... if you need this to be at the bottom...

but if you want it to be a consistent size... you might want to look at the invisible rectangle... or just dragging the size of that frame bigger... and keep an eye out on Figma updates... I'll update this video if I can find a new way that Figma does it... but for now choose one of the three hacks.

All right, that's it, custom spacing in Auto layouts, inside Figma, done... I'll see you in the next video.