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‫Hey, everyone, welcome back.

‫We're going to be talking about constraints.

‫Now, constraints are really important if you're using regular frames, and I'll get into that right

‫now.

‫So let's jump right in.

‫So I'm going to press F to get my frame and I'm just going to pick any frame.

‫I'm just going to pick this one over here.

‫So now that we have our frame in place, what we're going to do is we're going to place some items in

‫there.

‫Now, I'm just going to press R to get a rectangle.

‫No place for one rectangle here.

‫And I'm going to place another rectangle below it.

‫Now I have two rectangles, so constraints tell Figma how layers should respond when you resize the

‫frames.

‫So let's take a look here.

‫If I'm going to resize my frame, you notice that the layer beneath doesn't actually move.

‫Now, this really helps you control how designs look across different screen sizes and devices.

‫So there's two types of constraints.

‫You have horizontal constraints and vertical constraints.

‫Constraints are located over here on the right sidebar.

‫So these are horizontal and these are vertical constraints.

‫You'll notice that it says left and this one says top.

‫That means that when I move the left side.

‫They're going to move with it.

‫And if I move the top side.

‫They're going to move as well.

‫Now, I want to set it to left and right.

‫And I'll leave that one at top.

‫Now let's see what happens to this rectangle when I resize the frame.

‫You'll notice that now it shrinks and grows.

‫So that's pretty awesome.

‫You can even do it in this way as well.

‫So I'm going to leave that when I left and I'm going to do top and bottom for the vertical constraints.

‫You'll notice that now it shrinks up and down.

‫You can even do things such as let's move this one just a little bit lower.

‫For vertical constraints, you can do center.

‫So that means it's just going to stay kind of in place.

‫Watch.

‫So it's centers itself.

‫You can do this even for horizontal constraints as well.

‫You can do scale.

‫This is really great if you want something to grow.

‫So notice how that rectangle is going to grow in height and in width as you grow the frame.

‫Pretty cool, right?

‫You can apply constraints to any layer within a frame.

‫It's not possible to apply constraints to layers outside of a frame.

‫So if we now have this layer, I'm going to just create a copy.

‫So I'm going to do command or control C and go click outside the frame and I'm going to Press Command

‫V and Control V would be for Windows and I'll just drag that right outside the frame.

‫So you notice how it doesn't have the constraints on the side like it did within the regular frame.

‫That's because it's not within a frame.

‫You can only apply constraints within a frame or layers within an auto frame.

‫So layers within an auto layered frame and layers outside of a regular frame will have constraints.

‫Only regular frames will have constraints.

‫Sometimes, though, you do want to resize the frame with resizing the items within.

‫And the way to do that is to ignore the constraints.

‫And the shortcut to hold is command for Mac and control for Windows.

‫So let's take a look.

‫So I'm going to resize this again.

‫This is set to scale.

‫I'm just going to leave it so you'll notice that, okay, now I don't want to do anything.

‫I'm just going to hold command and I can do at any point.

‫See, I'm holding a command now and it'll be controlled for Windows users.

‫Now the items within are not moving.

‫Let me just move this one out of the frame there, but as soon as I start to let go of that shortcut.

‫Things start to scale again and that is how you use constraints within figma.