How to make a table in Figma

Not in Figma Design. Tables are a long-standing feature request on forum.figma.com, and in 2025 Figma support replied that native tables are "not on our roadmap". Designers either build tables from auto layout or generate them with a plugin. Figma Slides and FigJam both have native tables, which is why you'll see table tools in those products and not in a design file.

The structure has three levels: a cell (an auto layout frame around one text layer), a row (a horizontal auto layout frame of cells), and the table (a vertical auto layout frame of rows). Because every level is auto layout, the table resizes itself when text gets longer or you add rows.

1. Type a sample value, select the text and press Shift+A. Set horizontal padding (12 to 16 px is common) and a fixed height.
2. Press ⌥⌘K / Ctrl+Alt+K to create a component. Add variants for header and body cells, and a right-aligned version for numbers.
3. Place one instance per column in a line, select them and press Shift+A to make the row.
4. Set each column's cells to a fixed width, or set the cells to Fill container and control the width on the row. Fill container only works on children of an auto layout frame.
5. Duplicate the row, select all rows and press Shift+A to make the table frame.

Many designers make the row a component too. Then a hover or selected row state is a variant, and changing the row once updates every row in the table.

Row-first or column-first?

Row-first (rows stacked vertically) matches how HTML tables and row hover states work, but every cell in a column needs the same width. Column-first (vertical columns sitting side by side) lets each column hug its widest content, so widths line up by themselves, but a whole-row hover state is harder. Both are common. The forum thread best and clearest explanation of tables walks through the trade-offs.

Select any row and press ⌘D / Ctrl+D. The copy joins the auto layout stack and the table grows to fit. To add a column, duplicate one cell in each row, or in a column-first table duplicate the whole column. If a new row lands in the wrong place, drag it in the Layers panel: auto layout order follows layer order.

Building by hand makes sense for a design system table you'll reuse. For a one-off table, a plugin is faster. Our plugin, Table Creator - Import From Excel, builds a styled table from pasted cells, a .csv or .xlsx file, or a Google Sheet, or an empty table with placeholder text. It's a different plugin from the popular "Table Creator" by Gavin McFarland. The full import walkthrough is in how to import an Excel table into Figma.

Other table plugins designers use most, by user count in our catalog:

• Table Creator by Gavin McFarland (about 795,000 users) builds tables you can edit, resize and keep in line with your design system.
• Google Sheets Sync (about 215,000 users) fills layers from a Google Sheet, which pairs well with a table you built yourself.
• Table Generator & Creator (about 201,000 users, paid) generates and styles tables.
• Table Templates with Auto Layout gives you responsive auto layout table templates to start from.

If the cells only need believable fake values, see realistic mock data in Figma.

Figma Slides has a real table object. Open Assets → Table, then drag on the slide to set its size. Double-click a cell to type. You can also drag a CSV file onto the slide, or paste cells from Google Sheets or a FigJam table, and Slides turns them into a table. Each table is limited to 500 cells.

FigJam has tables too, which suit workshops and planning boards. Neither one gives you a table inside a Figma Design file, so for product screens, use the auto layout method or a plugin.