Stop frames from moving around

I actually was going crazy trying to know why some frames moved while others didn’t.

I discovered that if you put the frames into a selection, then they moved, but if you put them alone floating in the canvas, then they don’t and you can actually click the things inside.

I hope this helps someone else too 🙂

I would love that feature to be implemented also.

it is trivially easy to spoil your work without meaning to. never making a mistake again is not a reasonable solution

The trick is to not put things into a frame if you don’t want them to be children and inheritors of that frame.

You solve the problem for me, thanks a lot. All I did was to locate th frame, selected it, and clicked on that ‘padlock’ icon and boom the issue of moving frame stopped while trying ti select items or scrow.

you did it, thanks

I 100% want this. Frames + Sections (that contain working frames on them)… it’s a shambles. My stuff moves everywhere all the time when I’m trying to work in designs.

Here’s what I do. Instead of taking a background screenshot (or a “body” container that fills the frame) for instance, and turning it into a frame, you create the frame separate, put a background screenshot or the body container and make it fill the frame and then lock it (the background image / body container). Now you can drop things into the frame by first clicking on the frame title, but now they technicaly sit on top of the screenshot or background container, which is locked, and enables you to move the objects around in the frame without moving the frame around. If you want to move the frame, then you have to click on the title of the frame.

This is such a spoiler for intuitive use. Figma needs to make it default behavior where the frame is always stationary. How could intended use be to move it all the time? This makes me wonder if the Figma team actually uses their product on a regular basis. Also how could Figma ignore this clear want from users. Not having this be default behavior feels like a bug, feels unintended.

I’m going crazy as well. We need to fix this asap. Thank you.

Awesome. Easy and very helpful trick…

Need a function for locking frame position and prevent it from moving when trying to select multiple elements inside of the frame 🙏

Hey All, thanks for the feedback and apologies for the lack of acknowledgement here!

We’ll pass this onto our team for future consideration.

This is such basic functionality, I cannot believe this hasn’t been addressed…

Hold ctrl before selecting multiple elements with mouse

Adobe XD did this flawlessly, and to this day I can do designs from scratch faster in XD. This drives me crazy in Figma, and is the number one thing I hate about this platform. It constantly messes me up and I have to undo, manually select components, or zoom in.

In XD, the Frames (or Artboards) were always locked in place on the canvas, but could be moved by click dragging on the title of the artboard. The same implementation needs to be done here. You could move a Frame or Section by click dragging the title, otherwise they would remain in place.

Mind blowing this isn’t a feature. Been using Fig for years, this is my most hated experience. And no, I’m not doubling up on Frames within Frames.

good