Issue #4998πŸ’¬ AnsweredOpened Mar 22, 2023by glaprida0 reactions

ShowOffsetsSelected not working

Quick answerby glaprida

Hi, I see that now it works while hovering the element even if it is selected (previously it only worked on non-selected elements) ...but it only shows the offsets while hovering (I thought showOffsetsSelected would show the offsets of the selected element even if it wasn't being hovered) Is this the intended behaviou...

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GrapesJS version [X] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJS What browser are you using? Chome v111 Reproducible demo link https://codepen.io/glaprida/pen/YzOJOGq Describe the bug How to reproduce the bug?Open the codepen link. Drag any basic block to canvas with some margin or padding.You will see that showOffsets works as expected (when hovering an element that is NOT selected)Selecting the element hides all offsets. It doesn't show the selected element offsets even if you hover it. (showOffsetsSelected is set to true) What is the expected behavior? To be able to see the offsets of...

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glapridaβ€’ Apr 3, 2023

Hi, I see that now it works while hovering the element even if it is selected (previously it only worked on non-selected elements) ...but it only shows the offsets while hovering (I thought showOffsetsSelected would show the offsets of the selected element even if it wasn't being hovered) Is this t...

artfβ€’ Apr 5, 2023

Yeah at the moment this is what is intended to do. Probably one day we'll revisit this to make it more customizable (ability to extend/create style handlers on canvas)

glapridaβ€’ Jun 21, 2023

Hi there, sorry for the insistence... but is there any way you could think of that I can achieve this?

What I need is to show the offsets of the selected element, no matter if it's hovered or not.

GJSBlockβ€’ May 17, 2026

Thanks for reporting this, @glaprida. Great question about showOffsetsSelected not working. The recommended approach with Canvas is to use the event-driven API. Start here: Check the GrapesJS documentation for your specific module Look for the on() event listener method Most operations can be achie...

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