5ml User's Guide

5ml User's Guide
Locking and Unlocking Page Elements
The Page Outline pane includes a lock/unlock element icon which allows you to lock an element to its current position on
the canvas. Some elements are parent elements, for example, the Container element. In the case of a parent element,
you can lock or unlock at the parent level or at the child element level. For example, Figure 7-1 on page 185 shows the
Container element unlocked, the parent element, and two Image elements, one locked and the other unlocked. Both
Image elements are child elements of the Container element. The first Image element, being unlocked can be manually
moved to another position on the page as shown Figure 7-1 on page 185. The second Image element being locked cannot
be moved. When a parent element is locked so are all of its child elements.
Figure 7-1: Moving an unlocked Image element on the Canvas.
To lock a page element:
1. Select the page element either on the Canvas on in the Page Outline pane.
2. Click on the lock/unlock ( ) icon located in the Page Outline's middle column.
The lock/unlock icon no longer appears and the element is locked on the Canvas and cannot be manually moved
on the Canvas.
To unlock a page element:
1. On the Page Outline, click in the lock/unlock column to the left of the element.
The lock/unlock (
) icon appears and the element is unlocked on the Canvas and can be manually moved.
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