Custom padding for button symbol with / without icon

[riddle (Peter)]

Hi, I’m using the new stacking functionality for Symbols and wondering how I can achieve the following layout for a button with an optional icon:

As you can see, the left padding before the icon is only 8px, while right padding is 12px. Gutter between icon and label is 6px.

This means that if I hide the icon, the left padding stays at 8px and looks off:

I’ve found a temporary solution which is to add a single space before the label but it’s kind of jank

Anything else I’m missing that would make this cleaner? Or should I abandon the idea and make two symbols, one for icon+text button and one for text button?

[chris (Chris Downer)]

Yes, I think your best case is to use two separate button symbols here. I can see why you’re using separate padding with the left and right edges

[riddle (Peter)]

Thank you!

Since I’m working with these new features, can I also ask if it’s possible to replace layer style of the main frame?

I see that for Button M, Solid there is no longer any background rectangle, so there is no way to specify an Override, right?

The only way I can do this is to paste back the rectangle, ignore stack layout and stretch it back to 100% of the available space. Then I can switch button’s background layer style to hover or pressed (for example).

[chris (Chris Downer)]

Yes! Frames now support layer styles in the new version. We did this so you don’t need to hack around with a rectangle and ignore layout. Took a screenshot of a selected instance where you can see the layer style you can swap there.

[riddle (Peter)]

Oooooh now it makes sense, thank you! I wonder what I was missing… when I made symbol from that frame, I was surprised that while background rect’s styles were copied as-is, the layer style wasn’t copied (was empty). Now I fixed it and I can override! Awesome stuff, this is the best update maybe ever.