Stop frames from moving around

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Hello, I have two projects where one frame moves when draging or trying selecting. And another one where the frame is locked, but the content can be selected and dragged. I’m trying to find what’s the feature allowing this behavior. Or I have a bug? (mind you, a helpful one)

The content probably doesn’t belong to the frame (you can’t place it inside when the frame is locked).

Does anyone recommend a workaround? I’ve been using a locked background instead but it isn’t ideal.

I too have been having a frustrating time accidentally moving the frame around when I’m just trying to move multiple items.

Please provide this feature to lock location of figma frame without locking contents of the frame. When I am doing animations, frame move around a lot and I get a jump in the animation.

Honestly, the ability to be able to stop the top level frame from moving when attempting select children needs to be made a high priority, please.

It’s beyond frustrating and really affects a designer’s efficiency. I am considering going back to Adobe products because of this frustration.

Note: I have not had this issue with all frames for some reason. It does not seem to be happening with the Web sized frames, but it does on the social ones for me.

Hi,
Yea there is a VERY workaround workaround, that is to just select frame, press enter to select all children, drag em out of the frame, work on em then just drag em back in

by drag out I mean in the layer manager by the way, then you can just lock the frame while you’re working on the elements

I think you can hold the Option Key on the keyboard and drag the mouse to select items within a Frame without having it locked. 😊

Doesn’t that just duplicate the frame?

Sorry I meant the Command key and drag and that selects the inmediate items without selecting the frame or background.

Click on the Padlock button next to this layer to lock the frame

Yes, that feature is still wanted ;-).

Thank You!!!

Wtf, can you finally add that bloody option for locking frame only. Is it THAT hard?

I guess this well be kinda solution for the topic. Make white background and lock it in the Place, tehn move it to a frame later when everyting done. 🙂

Still not fixed?? Please allow user to lock frames from moving!!

I had a similar issue. I fixed it by ungrouping the frame 🛠️

This just feels like acitve sabotage of productivity or some mindgame.

The best workaround for this would be probably be PenPot!

Wouldn`t it reflect more kindly on figma to call this a bug instead of a product idea?

How is this a bug? The current behavior is intentional, whether desired by you personally or not. If they implement a feature which would only lock the frame from moving but not the contents, but it would stop working — that would be a bug. But since there is no such feature, there is no bug.

I also need this feature.
I want my frame to be locked in position, but I want to edit contents inside of it.
Now I have to use extra clicks all the time to navigate to the inside of my frame when I really “never” need to edit it.

A simple checkbox that says “lock frame” or whatever would be sufficient.

I might not understand the issue here.
But it seems the best workaround is two things:

• Make sure to not drag the mouse when clicking
• Make double sure that you selected the right object, or keep clicking until you do.

In my case i store all my atomic elements into frames that i am constantly accessing, and yes, few times I dragged the main frame and had to move it to its original place again.

No frustration.

When encountering such issue, i learned to be more careful with my clicks and make sure no drag was present.
Also learned about the “ctr+click” feature to select the last child item, and also the “Enter” and “Shift+Enter” function, to select a frame and manually go deeper on the selection.

I improved workflow

In this topic i see so many anger replies.
A tool can bring so many solutions to the users, but keep in mind that at a certain degree we are the ones responsible to learn better ways to improve our wrokflow.
Asking for an improvement to the devs of the tool is ok, but don’t forget that they are not forced to please our will to do the less work possible.

I repeat, i might not understand the real issue of this topic, as it surprises me how some users feel so angry for what seems a thing about clicking a mouse without moving it.