Issue #3463💬 AnsweredOpened May 18, 2021by anatoli-dp1 reactions

Inspector overflow broken

Quick answerby anatoli-dp1

Maybe put the controls in the front of the text and then offset the entire box slightly for each indent or stacked item. That way u can stack them as far as you want without issue 🤷 Im going to end up rolling my own solution to achieve that but since I don't understand the structure of how ur code is done I'm not gon...

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Are you able to reproduce the bug from the demo?

  • [ x] Yes
  • No

What is the expected behavior? when stacking anything within each other the inspector should make appropriate room for the text of the component and its controls properly positioned

Describe the bug detailed when stacking items past the inspectors width the rows expand but no text is seen and controls are not properly positioned

What is the current behavior? as stated above (idk if i even explain it well but screenshots are provided)

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anatoli-dpMay 22, 2021

Maybe put the controls in the front of the text and then offset the entire box slightly for each indent or stacked item. That way u can stack them as far as you want without issue 🤷 Im going to end up rolling my own solution to achieve that but since I don't understand the structure of how ur code is done I'm not gonna be able to help much. But would be nice if it was that way by default

artfMay 22, 2021

Yeah, unfortunately, the default layer panel is not that scalable, we need to rethink how is rendered

artfMay 22, 2021

Yeah moving controls in front of the text sound reasonable (eg. and make them visible only when I hover the component). Anyway, being not such a common case having so much messy structure I wouldn't put a lot of priority on this problem, but for sure it would cool to fix such a limitation. If anyone is available for help, here you can find views of the Layer Manager: https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/blob/dev/src/navigator/view/ItemView.js

ClaudeCodeMay 17, 2026

Thanks for reporting this, @anatoli-dp.

The issue with inspector overflow broken appears to be a race condition or state management timing problem. This typically happens when component lifecycle events and DOM modifications overlap, creating an inconsistent state.

What to try:

  1. Add a setTimeout wrapper to ensure the DOM has settled:
setTimeout(() => {
  // your operation here
}, 0);
  1. Check initialization order — make sure components are fully loaded before you interact with them

  2. Use the editor's event system — listen to completion events:

editor.on('component:mount', (component) => {
  // safe to interact with component here
});

Recommended next steps:

  • Test with the latest GrapesJS version if you haven't
  • Provide a minimal reproducible example (CodeSandbox) — this helps the team identify the root cause faster
  • Include GrapesJS version, browser, and console errors in your report

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