Placing objects over Auto layout frames

How to move and place elements and objects over Auto layout elements and frames without placing inside of them. Spoiler alert: hold space bar while dragging them.

[appealingpotatoes]

Autolayout containers mimic display flex property commonly found in web development. I think Figma should build a feature for aautolayout that mimics position absolute property in web development.
Allowing us to place items inside auto layout containers, but not following auto layout itself.

[mathewhoy]

has this been changed? i'm holding down space and it's not doing this at all. everything keeps moving down in my design.

[tonidebcn]

THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST LESSON IN FIGMA TUTORIALS 🤣🤣🤣

[jesusidev]

Lifesaver I ran into this issue and this video was great. Simple and short!

[michellezhu]

Life-saver! I've also had this issue. Sometimes I had to undo my autolayout just to put some element on top. Thanks!!

[faitholusola]

This tip deservedly had to be a Video! Thanks for sharing!

[yippee]

So excited for this! So simple but makes a huge difference

[dannypangart]

Thank you, I was about to lose it until I saw this video, one of the first things that should have been taught early on.

[ankit-etir]

it is not exporting the objects placed over auto layout frames, Help!

[faqsguy]

I had a very hard time getting this to work and I figured out a critical detail that was not mentioned: You must start dragging without holding space, then hold space when you drag the item into the auto-layout area. If you try to drag the item into the auto-layout area and THEN hold space, it will not work at all. You have to be holding down the space bar BEFORE your cursor moves into the auto-layout frame.

Frustrating detail!

[seantubridy]

Something happened where this used to work but doesn't seem to anymore. Dragging over wit the spacebar held still works fine but holding down the space bar while inside seems to have stopped working, for me at least. Is there a way to set something to be "free moving" after it's already been dragged into an auto layout?

[martinmbae]

Thanks bro, you saved my sleepless nights and a zillion ctr-z's because items just getting inside the auto-layouts

[marcelohickel]

good lord. I almost hated figma and made jerry rigs because of that just the other day. That change the whole deal. Thanks a lot.

[chrisronan]

Oh snap! I could have used this two years ago! Back when people we saying “oh snap!”

[Lets_shop_together]

Life saving
I suffered a lot in my last design
Didn't know this thing
Thanks! !

[iamthecatalyst.]

THANK YOU!! .... AMAZING TIP .... was so frustrated about this until now....

[agent]

This is really helpful, and it's nice to have the easy drag thing, but I really wish there was the option to set the default behavior. I feel like 80% of the time I'm trying to drag over something and only 20% into autolayout (Usually I just paste things into autolayout anyway) and it's been frustrating to remember the modifier all the time.

[rus-nipeace-da]

OMG Thank you I straggled so much with this until seing your video 🙏🏻

[_lfaustoo]

WOW! Just when I needed this the most! Thank you so much ❤️

[MusicLovedIt]

"oh snap" man is that was already there or It's a new update? I really appreciated it because I face that problem so hard and you got me a solution. Thanks, man.