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url: "/emailify/design/columns.md"
description: "Any **🚣 Row** layer must always contain one or more **🏛️ Column** layers, which provides a way to create layouts for your content layers to sit inside of."
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# Adding columns to your email designs

> Any **🚣 Row** layer must always contain one or more **🏛️ Column** layers, which provides a way to create layouts for your content layers to sit inside of.

[Video](/assets/videos/emailify/design/adding-new-columns.mp4)

You can add extra columns to any Row layer in your email by clicking on the Row layer in Figma, and then adding a new empty Column layer to it via the **Quick Add Element** dropdown selector at the bottom of the plugin window.

This will add a brand new empty Column which you can then start populating with content layers (eg. text, images, buttons, etc) and customizing the layer's styles (eg. changing the background color, adjusting [padding and spacing](/emailify/design/item-spacing), etc) in Figma as needed.

> **Note:** Please note that each Row can only have a single row of Columns, so you'll need to create a brand new Row whenever you decide to have a different number of columns as a underneath your existing row of columns.

> **Warning:** **🏛️ Column** elements can only be added directly inside of 🚣 **Row** layers. If you need multiple rows of columns, you'll need to create brand new 🚣 **Row** for each row of columns you need.