# Cant move objects in layout editor
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [26 January 2021 14:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780 "2021-01-26T14:36:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Rookie](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Rookie)
#### Post date: [26 January 2021 14:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/1 "2021-01-26T14:36:54Z")
This was posted before from someone else but got no responses, I was able to move the objects around, now I cant. Any thoughts? When I move the cursor to the edge (to resize) it doesnt move anything, it just selects all the text.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [26 January 2021 15:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/2 "2021-01-26T15:39:35Z")
which version of the dashboard is this ? Which platform/OS, browser ?
(there should be a resize icon to bottom right
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### Author:  [@Rookie](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Rookie)
#### Post date: [26 January 2021 16:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/3 "2021-01-26T16:16:18Z")
Started project through IBM cloud, resize was working originally, lost that function somewhere along the way.
Windows 10, Firefox
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### Author:  [@Nodi.Rubrum](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Nodi.Rubrum)
#### Post date: [27 January 2021 05:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/4 "2021-01-27T05:43:28Z")
See this as well, since Dash 2.23, NR 1.1.0.
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### Author:  [@Rookie](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Rookie)
#### Post date: [27 January 2021 08:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/5 "2021-01-27T08:49:57Z")
Morning all, got it figured. Somewhere along the way I dropped a ui template into the program. Deleting that did the trick
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [27 January 2021 10:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/6 "2021-01-27T10:59:57Z")
Hi -interesting... was it a blank one ? or did it have some content that managed to break things ? are you able to share it ?
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### Author:  [@Rookie](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Rookie)
#### Post date: [27 January 2021 11:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/7 "2021-01-27T11:26:55Z")
Scratch that, was able to move things are yesterday, this morning I have the same issue???? Can't resize
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### Author:  [@Rookie](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Rookie)
#### Post date: [28 January 2021 09:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/8 "2021-01-28T09:41:00Z")
Seems to be a browser issue, changed from Firefox to Chrome and I have all functionality back.
I'll mess around with Firefox settings and see if I can get it working there again
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [28 January 2021 15:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/9 "2021-01-28T15:13:39Z")
Try disabling all the browser extensions.
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### Author:  [@Nodi.Rubrum](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Nodi.Rubrum)
#### Post date: [3 February 2021 14:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/10 "2021-02-03T14:18:00Z")
How is that to help? Just thinking out loud here. I have seen this on FireFox with no changes to settings from default. When the issue comes and goes... feels like a memory or resource limit? Extensions are client side only. I don't have any additional extensions other than the defaults. If memory or resources use is an issue, seeing this issue on PiZero would be frequent and on a Pi4 rare, right? If the issue is server-side?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [3 February 2021 15:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/11 "2021-02-03T15:39:53Z")
> [@Nodi.Rubrum](#):
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> How is that to help
Because extensions can mess things up, so when a browser has problems that another does not it is always worth while disabling the extensions in case it is one of those.
> [@Nodi.Rubrum](#):
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> the issue comes and goes
You didn't tell us that, it makes it less likely to be an extension obviously.
> [@Nodi.Rubrum](#):
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> Extensions are client side only
The browser is client side only. Though I suppose it is just possible that a browser might interact slightly differently with the server, and induce a server problem that another browser does not, but that would be very unusual.
Update to the latest dashboard version before investigating more.
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### Author:  [@Nodi.Rubrum](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Nodi.Rubrum)
#### Post date: [4 February 2021 04:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/12 "2021-02-04T04:04:07Z")
I have not seen the issue recently... since moving to 1.2.6 or so. When it did happen, pretty much the only way I found to clear the issue was to stop/start NR. Not to say it was not a browser issue. There are a couple of other threads in the forum discussing the issue, and I believe I did mention it was inconsistent, and resolution, workaround was to restart NR, in one of the other threads. I don't recall if I saw it on any specific model of Pi, I was doing a lot of NR development on PiZero and Pi3 models at the time. Now most of the flow development I do is on Pi4.
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### Author:  [@Rookie](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Rookie)
#### Post date: [12 February 2021 00:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/13 "2021-02-12T00:38:08Z")
Yes, you may be right. I'm running node red through IBM cloud and get the same issue on Firefox. I found shutting down the browser and starting up again works,or if I switch browsers.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [14 March 2021 00:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-move-objects-in-layout-editor/39780/14 "2021-03-14T00:38:21Z")
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