# How to turn off coordinate container snapping?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-turn-off-coordinate-container-snapping/40717>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition80\
**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-turn-off-coordinate-container-snapping/40717 "2020-11-17T02:29:25Z")\
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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:** [November 17, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-turn-off-coordinate-container-snapping/40717/1 "2020-11-17T02:29:25Z")

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Is there any way to turn off the coordinate container alignment snapping tools? There’s a bug with using the arrow keys to move components (they move in the wrong direction…) and so I would like to use the mouse to move my components around, but I can’t because they keep snapping to the alignment of other components and I can’t move them to where I want them.

These red things:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/1/e13049aca9df06b774b787b4c1e24f007e97143f.png)

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**Author:** ![cmallonee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cmallonee/32/6416_2.png) [@cmallonee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmallonee)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-turn-off-coordinate-container-snapping/40717/2 "2020-11-17T06:30:33Z")

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There’s no option to turn it off permanently, but you can hold down the Alt key to disable “snapping” while you are currently dragging a component.