# Perspective relative positions

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-relative-positions/55115>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 18, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-relative-positions/55115 "2022-01-18T15:47:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-relative-positions/55115/3 "2022-01-18T16:17:30Z")

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@djs is correct: if you want components to have relative positioning within your coordinate container, then you need to set the mode of the root container to “percent”. The values will change from `XXpx` to numeric values which represent a percent of the dimension, so from a given default width of 800px for a View where a component is placed at 200px as an `x` position, swapping to “percent” would result in the component having an `x` position of `0.25`, because that `x` position equates to 25% of the width.

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