# Perspective component not interactive on Designer View

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-component-not-interactive-on-designer-view/99603>\
**Category:** Module Development\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [December 9, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-component-not-interactive-on-designer-view/99603 "2024-12-09T19:57:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grace\_Gan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Grace\_Gan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Grace_Gan)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-component-not-interactive-on-designer-view/99603/1 "2024-12-09T19:57:59Z")

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Hi,

I have a relatively simple custom perspective component that consist of a dropdown at the moment. However, once I drag the component to a view, even though it gets added, it's not interactive at all, i.e. i can't select an option from the dropdown, i can't select the component to update it's position, even if i update the position in the perspective property editor it doesn't get adjusted as well.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/5/5/558380e3669c5e773ec522c8cf38140f6acfd3d3.png)

Any idea what I'm missing here? I can provide more implementation detaills if needed but just wonder if there are any simple reasoning behind this before I post all the code.

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**Author:** ![bmusson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bmusson/32/87530_2.png) [@bmusson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bmusson)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-component-not-interactive-on-designer-view/99603/2 "2024-12-09T20:21:05Z")

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Are you using the style emitter on the top level of your component?

> [@Grace\_Gan](#):
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> before I post all the code.

This will help.

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**Author:** ![Grace\_Gan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Grace\_Gan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Grace_Gan)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-component-not-interactive-on-designer-view/99603/3 "2024-12-09T20:25:52Z")

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Added the style emitter and it resolved the issue.

This is probably more of a ignition question but I still can't click on the dropdown to select options, is this a normal behavior in the designer view? If so is there a way to go to a view that I can test the dropdown from?

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**Author:** ![bmusson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bmusson/32/87530_2.png) [@bmusson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bmusson)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-component-not-interactive-on-designer-view/99603/4 "2024-12-09T20:27:10Z")

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Does anything different happen in preview mode?  
I think mouse events are default disabled in design mode.

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**Author:** ![Grace\_Gan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Grace\_Gan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Grace_Gan)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-component-not-interactive-on-designer-view/99603/5 "2024-12-09T20:28:25Z")

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Again that works just as desired. Thank you!