# How to prevent component from being selected in Designer?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-prevent-component-from-being-selected-in-designer/108253>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [July 9, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-prevent-component-from-being-selected-in-designer/108253 "2025-07-09T03:16:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-prevent-component-from-being-selected-in-designer/108253/1 "2025-07-09T03:16:13Z")

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I know I can use `prointerEvents: none` to stop a component from being moved around on the screen in the Designer, but dragging a selection box will still select it so there's still the possibility of inadvertently selecting it and deleting it / changing prop values when you're bulk-editing multiple selected components. Is there any way to prevent this as well with CSS?

For reference, this is on a coord view and the component is an SVG put in the background (lowest z-order)

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**Author:** ![mazeyrat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mazeyrat/32/10955_2.png) [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-prevent-component-from-being-selected-in-designer/108253/2 "2025-07-09T04:20:22Z")

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I am looking for the same feature. A way to lock some component you dont want to inadvertly move.

I tried to bind coordinate with constant value.

I hope 8.3 will have some layer lock option...

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-prevent-component-from-being-selected-in-designer/108253/3 "2025-07-09T05:17:16Z")

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At least for this use-case, i'm using `background-image` to add the image to the background instead, but there are definitely times I would want to use it where I can't use this method