Populating visual designs with web content

In a digital media environment to facilitate creation of content using one or more computing devices, a system comprising;

• one or more processing devices;
• and
• one or more computer-readable media storing instructions executable via the one or more processing devices to perform operations to facilitate creation of content using a digital media application including:
• generating, via a user interface for a digital media application, a document design including a layout of one or more repeating design elements, each design element comprising multiple objects of different content types grouped together, adjacent design elements of the repeating design elements along a direction of the layout being equally spaced;
• receiving a dragging motion;
• expanding, in response to receiving the dragging motion, the layout of one or more repeating design elements;
• adding, responsive to the expanding, additional equally-spaced adjacent design elements to the layout along the direction;
• accessing content from a remote network storage location having a structured arrangement of one or more data elements through a data panel exposed via the user interface;
• obtaining, via the user interface, a selection of one of the one or more design elements in the document design and a selection of one of the one or more data elements from the content in the data panel;
• responsive to obtaining the selections, parsing the content by recognizing repeating data elements included within the structured arrangement of data elements corresponding to the selected data element;
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• auto-populating design elements in the layout of one or more repeating design elements corresponding to the selected design element with content of the repeating data elements different for each auto-populated design element and corresponding to content of the selected data element.

In a digital media environment to facilitate creation of content using one or more computing devices a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to perform the steps comprising:

• generating, via a user interface for a digital media application, a document design including a layout of one or more repeating design elements, each design element comprising multiple objects of different content types grouped together, adjacent design elements of the repeating design elements along a direction of the layout being equally spaced;
• receiving a dragging motion;
• expanding, in response to receiving the dragging motion, the layout of one or more repeating design elements;
• adding, responsive to the expanding, additional equally-spaced adjacent design elements to the layout along the direction;
• accessing content from a remote network storage location having a structured arrangement of one or more data elements through a data panel exposed via the user interface;
• obtaining, via the user interface, a selection of one of the one or more design elements in the document design and a selection of one of the one or more data elements from the content in the data panel;
• responsive to obtaining the selections, parsing the content by recognizing repeating data elements included within the structured arrangement of data elements corresponding to the selected data element;
• and
• auto-populating design elements in the layout of one or more repeating design elements corresponding to the selected design element with content of the repeating data elements different for each auto-populated design element and corresponding to content of the selected data element.