# šŸ˜šŸ˜ - Component selector in Pages **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [October 8, 2022, 7:19am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216 "2022-10-08T07:19:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Luther](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/luther/32/17929_2.png) [@Luther](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Luther)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 7:19am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/1 "2022-10-08T07:19:27Z")
I just realised the component selector in Pages is live. Wow! This makes things so much easier especially for those screens with a lot of componentsā€¦ You donā€™t even have to switch views but uses the hover effect to highlight the componentsā€¦ Thank you Glide team šŸ‘šŸ‘ [https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages-play-select-mode/44138?u=luther](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages-play-select-mode/44138) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 7:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/2 "2022-10-08T07:36:35Z")
Iā€™m sure I saw something similar to this in staging a while back. Nice to see its made its way into production šŸ‘ And itā€™s _much_ better than the way it behaves in Apps, with that annoying hotkey switching that hijacks your keyboard šŸ¤¬ I _really_ wish there was a way to disable that. ---
**Author:** ![Luther](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/luther/32/17929_2.png) [@Luther](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Luther)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 7:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/3 "2022-10-08T07:39:23Z")
I agree, this is so much betterā€¦ When working with Apps, I would sometimes forget that my Apps were in select mode and start to panic when I press a button on the App in the builder and nothing happens. I would of course realise this a few minutes later that I was on selector modeā€¦ This is so much betterā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 7:50am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/4 "2022-10-08T07:50:22Z")
I work almost exclusively in Play mode, and it gets me every time I take a screenshot. The key combination on a Mac to select an area and screenshot it is Cmd-Shift-4. So every time I go to take a screenshot, I hit my Cmd key, the builder immediately switches to Select mode, and I get a blue box around one of the components, which ruins my screenshot, and I swear really really loudly. Iā€™ve had to train myself to take the cursor context away from the Glide builder by clicking in another window before I take a screenshot. But sometimes I forgetā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 7:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/5 "2022-10-08T07:55:08Z")
Your message is really funny šŸ˜‚ But I agree with you the hotkey on Mac is anything but funny. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/6 "2022-10-08T08:11:06Z")
I like to use humour to get my point across. But alas, my grumpy old mans sense of humour quite often goes straight over the topā€¦ ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/4/5/45660aa87649eb79ae51dc8d387ffd6b97e6778c.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/7 "2022-10-08T23:11:44Z")
Iā€™m not seeing it in productionā€¦screenshot? I guess Iā€™m alone in saying that I love the MacBook keyboard shortcut. I find myself command-clicking on components in Pages only to frustratingly scroll through my list of components in the left hand panel. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 3:29am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/8 "2022-10-09T03:29:04Z")
yep, Iā€™m still seeing it. I really like this method much better ā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/9 "2022-10-09T12:11:44Z")
But if I have a screen with 40 components on it, scrolling through that list isnā€™t helpful. I want to just select the component I see in front of me. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/10 "2022-10-09T12:15:04Z")
oh, right - so you want it to work the other way around. I get what you mean, I guess I donā€™t see it as a problem as I rarely have that many components on a single screen. ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/11 "2022-10-09T12:16:33Z")
I get that command click isnā€™t the best hot key, but Iā€™d prefer ANY hot key to bring this backā€¦that or right clicking a component to select it which apparently you canā€™t do in pages either. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/12 "2022-10-09T12:19:48Z")
Yeah, Iā€™d be perfectly happy with the same behaviour as we have in Apps, if only it was a different shortcut key. In fact, I requested this almost 2 years agoā€¦ > [@Can we \*please\* have a different shortcut key for switching modes in the editor?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/can-we-please-have-a-different-shortcut-key-for-switching-modes-in-the-editor/21866): > > From the [docs](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/design-and-structure/play-and-select-mode)ā€¦ You can select the different modes with your mouse in the bottom left, or toggle with Command (Mac) or Control (PC). This is a really unfortunate choice of shortcut keys. Iā€™m a Mac user, and the Command key is one of the most used keys on my keyboard. As a result, when Iā€™m in the editor it is endlessly switching modes. Itā€™s so, so, so annoying face_with_symbols_over_mouth face_with_symbols_over_mouth To make things worse, the behaviour is inconsistent. Sometimes the togglinā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Luther](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/luther/32/17929_2.png) [@Luther](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Luther)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/13 "2022-10-09T14:05:27Z")
Yeah ā€¦I see what you mean now. I think I was too excited to notice that itā€™s not actually the same thing as in Apps but rather a hover effectā€¦ But even so, it is a step in the right direction. This is better than nothing at all šŸ¤—. Fingers crossed the actual component selector as in Apps is in the makingā€¦šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages/51216/14 "2022-10-09T17:33:35Z")
> [@Darren\_Murphy](#): > > if only it was a different shortcut key. In fact, I requested this almost 2 years agoā€¦ > > > [@](#): > > > > From the [docs](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/design-and-structure/play-and-select-mode)ā€¦ You can select the different modes with your mouse in the bottom left, or toggle with Command (Mac) or Control (PC). This is a really unfortunate choice of shortcut keys. Iā€™m a Mac user, and the Command key is one of the most used keys on my keyboard. As a result, when Iā€™m in the editor it is endlessly switching modes. Itā€™s so, so, so annoying face\_with\_symbols\_over\_mouth face\_with\_symbols\_over\_mouth To make things worse, the behaviour is inconsistent. Sometimes the togglinā€¦ @Ivo_Elbert