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In Figma, when you drop an object on a frame, it automatically auto-nests. How do I prevent this?
According to Figma on Twitter I have to hold the space bar. But after trying lots of times this doesn't seem to work. Pressing the space bar before or while dragging an object still puts it in a frame.
I'm on a Mac.
Holding spacebar is correct. I'm using the Desktop version of Figma 97.7 on Mac OS 11.3.1
Pressing nothing, will nest the items
You can see the difference below when holding down spacebar. Watch the layer panel to see the difference between holding spacebar and not holding spacebar when dragging items into frames.
Holding spacebar will prevent nesting
To prevent auto-nesting, hold the spacebar before you drag over the frame.
On a Mac, Safari 14.1
No other visual editing or design tool treats layers like this. It's not a common convention, it's additive and it should work as such. You shouldn't have told down spacebar for Figma to behave according to convention, instead you should hold down spacebar to enable this new behavior.
