In my experience, the Element Inspector is constantly in my way.
So most of the time I move it to the blank space on the canvas. I like to propose to have an option to lock the inspector to the side of the canvas. It also is a better use of my screen real estate as you can see in my examples.
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I support the idea of a docked inspector. It does get in the way a lot having to move it around. For smaller screens though, it would need to collapse somehow. When I work on a 15 inch laptop, I donât often have that much empty white space you have in your screenshots. Yes, I can zoom out, but if I want to view at 100% or greater, it would overlap stuff.
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Yes, I agree that it is useful if you can undock the inspector when you work on smaller screens.
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Agree
We just added that. Youâll find an option in the Grid & borders menu. Note that this only applies in the design tab.
Happy designing!
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Thatâs a nice quick turnaround!
I guess from a UX perspective it would make sense to enable this on the element to dock instead of a menu item in the Grid&Borders menu but I understand the decision here.
The only thing for me is that it doesnât really work. When you navigate to a new page or reload the page, the element is undocked while it still shows as checked.
Well, itâs a quick reaction. But my problem isnât fixed. I made a video to explain it a bit.
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I agree with Mike here, the page needs to be centered in what real estate is left. While the property editor is itâs own full-length column. This is what my editor looks like.
@emmanuel I dont like this change, every time i reload my app, i have to lock the inspector then unlock it to have scroll. It was fine the way it was.
Im using an 11"!! macbook air. Can you change it back. this is so annoying.
We fixed this issue.
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Great improvement to the editor that will make life so much better for us all. Thanks @mike_verbruggen for voicing the suggestion and @neerja and @emmanuel for making it happen.
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Yeah, I noted the same thing this morning in another post. I do like the improvement just made with regard to more efficient space utilization, but it really doesnât make sense (and is less convenient) being accessible from the âGrid & bordersâ menu. I still think that a pinned icon would be a further improvement. Perhaps it could be like the comments icon - i.e. hollow when inactive and solid when active.
Regardless, thanks for this feature.
Additionally, when âpinnedâ (locked), it canât be closed, which makes no sense to me. The âXâ is still there in the upper right corner, but itâs nonfunctional. Why?
Good catch, fixed it
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Thanks, @emmanuel!
Not to beat this feature to death, but Iâm wondering if it would be possible to separate the paletteâs âlockedâ status from its âvisibilityâ. In other words, Iâd like to be able to close the palette when itâs locked to the side of the canvas (in order to regain full screen real estate), but to have it remember the âlockedâ setting when it reopens.
Currently, the only way to close the palette when itâs locked is to âunlockâ it. 
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@emmanuel I would like to thank you for the quick implementation of this request. I did not expect that.
So thanks for the surprise!
The ability to lock the element inspector is proving to be really handy, getting use to its placement on the right now.
One thing Iâve run into though is when using multiple conditions on an element, as the list grows, the height becomes squashed on the last condition, Iâm forced to use a limited view of the available expressions or move the condition up and back down again to fully assess.
Would it be possible @emmanuel to create some extra spacing at bottom e.g. when the âSelect a prperty to change when trueâ is clicked and the dialog is open?
Cheers
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