Unable to Place Components in Form that uses a Layout

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What I’m trying to do:
I have a Layout with a Layout Slot placed, and a Form that inherits that Layout that I would like to place Components on.

What I’ve tried and what’s not working:
I have tried to add components to the Form that inherits the Layout, but I have no-where in the UI to place any components even as I move my cursor over the entire design area. This seems to happen intermittently; if I place another slot on the Layout and “Run” the application, sometimes the layout slot will show up on the inheriting Form and I can place something, but most of the time it does not work.

Creating a new empty project(Material Design 3) and setting up a similar Layout and inheriting Form I generally don’t have an issue, though when select
the inheriting Form, sometimes I have to hit Escape before selecting a component to place in order for the Designer to show me the slot where I can place the Component.

I have only tried this on Google Chrome but I plan to try other browsers once I get a chance to do so.

I can post code as-needed but I’m not sure why this is behaving this way even with what I perceive as simple UI changes.

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Hi @dagofthedofg and welcome to the forum!

Would you mind sharing a clone link to your app so we can take a look at what’s going on? If you don’t want to share a clone link to your full app, a minimal clone reproducing the issue would also be useful

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Thank you! So far I may have been able to partially resolve the issue by placing a few components next to the slot component. The issue generally comes back but right now appears to be cleared up. Once the issue reoccurs I’ll go ahead and get a clone link to the problem state of the app.

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Hi, I noticed the same issue with the “old” standard templates. Once I moved the the new M3 templates the issue disappeared.