Element hierarchy

Parenting and children

Elements with other elements inside them are referred to as parents. The elements inside the parent are referred to as children. An element can be a child of one element but a parent to another.

Attaching & detaching

You can attach any element to a parent container. An attached element becomes the child of that container. You can detach it anytime by dragging it outside. This reparents the element. For example, if you drag an element outside of a container, it could attach to the section itself and become the child of the section.

Note: You can’t change the hierarchy of elements per breakpoint. If you change the hierarchy at one breakpoint, it changes the hierarchy for all breakpoints.

Resizing

You can set how a parent container and its children resize across all breakpoints. The size of a parent element can affect its child elements. If, for example, you size a parent to %, the elements inside will resize relative to it.

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs let you climb up in the hierarchy to navigate between, and select different elements on the canvas. For example, if you select a button, you can use breadcrumbs to grab the container it’s placed in. When an element is stretched, it can be tricky to grab the parent beneath it, so the breadcrumbs come in handy here.

Note: Elements on the same level of the hierarchy—like a button and paragraph text within the same container—will not appear in the same breadcrumbs thread.

Layers panel

You can view the hierarchy of each section in the Layers panel. Each parent container appears like a folder and the children appear as subitems underneath. Here, you can rearrange elements within their parent container using drag and drop. Click the 3 dots beside an element to hide it at a certain breakpoint.