# Select Components in Container

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/select-components-in-container/4057>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 23, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/select-components-in-container/4057 "2012-02-23T22:58:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Joseph\_Mendonca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@Joseph\_Mendonca](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Joseph_Mendonca)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/select-components-in-container/4057/1 "2012-02-23T22:58:09Z")

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How do you select all components in a container?

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**Author:** ![Greg.Buehler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Greg.Buehler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Greg.Buehler)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/select-components-in-container/4057/2 "2012-02-23T23:40:33Z")

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In the object treeview you can use the control/shift keys to select the top level components under the container.

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**Author:** ![Robert.McKenzie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/robert.mckenzie/32/4134_2.png) [@Robert.McKenzie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert.McKenzie)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/select-components-in-container/4057/3 "2012-02-23T23:47:57Z")

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If you are talking about a grouped container, then double-click on one component you want to select and press ctrl-A. If you are talking about an ungrouped container, then click on one component you want to select and press ctrl-A.

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**Author:** ![Joseph\_Mendonca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@Joseph\_Mendonca](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Joseph_Mendonca)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/select-components-in-container/4057/4 "2012-02-24T04:22:48Z")

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If you select one component within the container and cntrl - A, all the components within the container gets selected. Good, exactly what I inquired about. However, when you proceed to group the selected components they move out of position and stack atop one another. That’s bad! Selecting undo does not reverse the components into their original assigned position.

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/select-components-in-container/4057/5 "2012-05-08T18:18:08Z")

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This was fixed in 7.3.5