Adding a label, button or any perspective component INSIDE of a flex container

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Hey, I am new to Ignition Perspective or any ignition software to be honest. I am having difficulties dealing with flex containers right from the start. Maybe it is a clear user error on my end, or I have a different version of perspective, I am not sure.
I wanted to add perspective components INSIDE a flex container. Here is what I have tried so far:

My view itself is a flex container view. I have then 8 flex containers inside of it. Now, each of those 8 flex containers is going to have labels and text inputs and eventually one button in a separate flex container.
I have tried to cut/copy and paste it by right clicking on the flex container I want it in, but it keeps pasting it on the same hierarchy as the other flex containers rather than inside of it.
I have tried sliding and dropping inside of it, but it won't let me.
Wrap in container creates a new separate flex container inside of it but doesn't let me adjust the size of the flex container (even the regular flex container doesn't let me adjust its width and height)

IN THE PICTURE GIVEN:

"FlexContainer" under testflex>root is an example of a wrap in container. Whenever I try to add a perspective component(label for eg.) it just automatically goes in there as seen. I tried to add some labels so that you can see visually that the above methods did not work when tried. But ever since I had the wrap in container it just goes in there. Even before that it was impossible to add a label INSIDE of the other flex containers with colors/ names such as "department" for instance. The background colors were only added for visual reference.

Solution might be very simple but really appreciated. Thank You!

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You have to deep select the container you want to insert things into.

You can do this by either double clicking the container or right clicking on it and selecting "Deep Select". You can tell what container has deep select from the project browser as it will have a crosshair icon beside it. In your screenshot you can see this icon next to "root"

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You must deep select the container you want to paste in. Double click to drill down one container at a time, or use alt+left click to drill down to the component you click on.

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Thank you so much community. I knew the solution was something very simple. Double clicking the container and then adding the components was the move. Thank you again Steve_Laubach and others who replied!

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