Using Layout Templates in Framer (Fundamentals Lesson 22)
Components and styles make larger projects infinitely more manageable. But even still, when we have tens or even hundreds of pages, the pages themselves can share a lot of repeating structure.
Think things like navigation bars, footers, and even properties of a page itself like width, padding, and background color.
One: it’s a shame to have to repeat the same work every time we create a new page.
And Two: Making a simple change — like switching your navbar to fixed positioning could mean having to tweak page after page after page.
This is where Layout Templates in Framer come in, allowing us to take repeating global elements and properties, and save them as a template.
Which not only makes creating new pages much faster and keeps pages more consistent, but also gives us a central place to make global changes to pages across our entire site.
00:00 Intro
00:11 Why use layout templates in Framer
00:34 How layout templates save time and keep pages consistent
01:16 Creating your first layout template
01:53 Understanding the template canvas and placeholder frame
02:55 Adding a footer to your template
03:30 Applying and managing templates across pages
04:38 Switching, adding, and removing templates
05:26 Managing templates in the assets panel
06:04 Making templates flexible with variables
07:01 Adjusting padding with variables
08:49 Adding a variable for nav style variants
09:51 Using toggle variables for padding
11:50 Wrap up
Benjamin's Layout Templates video: • Framer Update: Layout Templates
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