Spent 4 hours hunting a Figma auto-layout bug that was just a missing pixel

I was rebuilding a sign-up flow and my buttons kept breaking on resize - it turned out one of my nested frames had a horizontal padding of 0 instead of 8, which killed the whole cascade. After staring at it like an idiot through lunch, I finally found it by turning off auto-layout on each layer one by one. Has anyone else had a tiny typo in their padding values eat up way more time than it should have?

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felix4888d ago

One of my nested frames had a horizontal padding of 0 instead of 8" - that is exactly the kind of thing that got my buddy Steve last month. He was building a card component and spent two hours adjusting spacing on the parent frame before realizing a text layer inside had its own padding set to 2 instead of 16. He told me he almost threw his laptop out the window when he finally found it.

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the_shane8d ago

Man that's brutal. I've been there too, wasted an afternoon chasing padding that was hiding one level deeper than I thought.