Use the layout grid: line up elements on guide lines

In the template editor, the layout grid shows rulers and guide lines over the canvas. When you drag an element close to a line, it snaps to it. This puts elements exactly in line. Only you see the grid in the editor, never in the finished design.

This takes four steps:

1. Show the grid in the toolbar.
2. Add a grid line on a ruler.
3. Move or delete the grid line if needed.
4. Line up elements on the lines.

Show the grid

1. Click the square with the grid in the middle of the toolbar, to the left of the zoom value. Its tooltip reads Toggle grid. Also reveals every element's connections. The grid is now shown: rulers appear at the top and on the left, and you see the anchoring connections of all elements.
   You can't drag a selection frame any more?

   While the grid is shown, dragging on an empty spot of the canvas does not draw a frame. Click the grid button again to hide the grid, then drag the frame.

   
   

A second click on the same button hides the grid again.

Add a grid line

1. Click a ruler at the spot where the line should be. The grid line is now set and runs across the whole canvas.
   • For a vertical line: the top ruler.
   • For a horizontal line: the left ruler.
   
   

Move or delete a grid line

Each grid line has a short part that sits on the ruler. That is where you grab it.

1. Double-click the short part of the grid line on the ruler. A popup with the line's position in pixels, Apply and Delete opens.
   
2. Depending on what you want, continue like this:
   • For an exact position: Type the position and click Apply. Only then does the line jump to the new spot.
   • To delete it: Click Delete. The line is removed.

Line up elements on the lines

1. Drag an element on the canvas close to a grid line. The element snaps to the line.
   Elements also snap to the edges and centers of other elements and to the edges and center of the canvas. This works even when the grid is hidden.
   The element jumps to a line although you want to place it freely?

   Start dragging and only then hold Alt (Option on a Mac). As long as you hold the key, the element does not snap anywhere. If you press the key before you start dragging, the anchoring tool switches on instead.

2. Look at the line the element snapped to after you let go. If you snapped a single element to another element or to an edge or the center of the canvas, a round button with + appears there for a few seconds.
3. Click the button with + if you need it. The snap becomes a lasting anchoring connection: from now on the element moves along when the other element changes.

Without that connection, snapping only helps you place elements. If a text gets longer later, an element that snapped to it does not move along.