# Group elements into a group

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/group-elements-into-a-group/3208>\
**Category:** Idea\
**Created:** [May 26, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/group-elements-into-a-group/3208 "2016-05-26T02:24:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![csfalcao](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/csfalcao/32/557_2.png) [@csfalcao](https://forum.bubble.io/u/csfalcao)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/group-elements-into-a-group/3208/1 "2016-05-26T02:24:03Z")

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I’m not an english native speaker, but shouldn’t “ **group elements into a group** ” be just “ **group elements** ”?  
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I remember in my young days using CorelDraw it had the contextual menu commands: **_Group/Ungroup_** , and it were pretty understandable, even using one word (it would be good to have the **ungroup** command too - [Delete group, keep elements?](http://forum.bubble.io/t/delete-group-keep-elements/1657)).

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**Author:** ![emmanuel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/emmanuel/32/27657_2.png) [@emmanuel](https://forum.bubble.io/u/emmanuel)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/group-elements-into-a-group/3208/2 "2016-05-26T02:59:34Z")

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Yes we’re being a little heavy on the language, with the goal of clearly saying that it’s going to create a new element that will contain the others. (which is why ungrouping isn’t trivial btw).

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**Author:** ![NigelG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@NigelG](https://forum.bubble.io/u/NigelG)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/group-elements-into-a-group/3208/3 "2016-05-26T05:21:40Z")

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Yes, I think you do need to differentiate between “Grouping” (in a Visio sort of a way) and placing all these elements into a created Group. So much more that moving them all around !

Maybe capitalise into “Group elements in a Group” ?

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**Author:** ![emmanuel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/emmanuel/32/27657_2.png) [@emmanuel](https://forum.bubble.io/u/emmanuel)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/group-elements-into-a-group/3208/4 "2016-05-26T05:28:56Z")

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Good idea, I’ll do that.

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**Author:** ![lonetour](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/lonetour/32/536_2.png) [@lonetour](https://forum.bubble.io/u/lonetour)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/group-elements-into-a-group/3208/5 "2016-08-19T14:37:32Z")

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I’m trying to use “Group elements in a Group” as part of my drive to Responsive, but I am having problems making it work. I can select a lot of elements (some of which are already in groups) but the menu button remains greyed out.

What am I doing wrong?

Here’s a video: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B\_Zq8LP53f8eOFpycXA1R3dwc3M/view](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Zq8LP53f8eOFpycXA1R3dwc3M/view)

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**Author:** ![csfalcao](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/csfalcao/32/557_2.png) [@csfalcao](https://forum.bubble.io/u/csfalcao)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/group-elements-into-a-group/3208/6 "2016-08-26T20:56:45Z")

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