Turn on or off snapping and the snap grid
Snapping and the snap grid provide you with a set of horizontal and vertical gridlines that—when you drag an object on the artboard—will snap or pull towards the closest vertical or horizontal gridlines. Objects can also snap to column and row dividers within a grid panel.
Workspace showing the snap grid turned on.
Additionally, snaplines allow you to drag objects on the artboard and have them snap to the margins, baseline (for text objects), or alignment (red dashed line) of other objects within the same container element such as a layout panel, column and row dividers in a grid panel, as well as the padding of the container element.
Shaded red areas showing snaplines.
You can quickly turn on snapping options using buttons on the artboard. Alternatively, you can select snapping options within the Options dialog box (Tools menu).
Show snap grid
Do one of the following:
- In the lower-left corner of the artboard, click
Show snap grid
.
To hide the snap grid, click the button again to see the off icon
. - On the Tools menu, click Options. In the Options dialog box, make sure that Artboard is selected on the left, and then select the Show snap grid check box. Click OK.
Turn on snapping to gridlines
Do one of the following:
-
In the lower-left corner of the artboard, click
Turn on snapping to gridlines
.
To turn off snapping to gridlines, click the button again to see the
off icon
. - On the Tools menu, click Options. In the Options dialog box, make sure that Artboard is selected on the left, and then select the Snap to gridlines check box. Click OK.
Turn on snapping to snaplines
Do one of the following:
- In the lower-left corner of the artboard, click
Turn on snapping to snaplines
.
To turn off snapping to snaplines, click the button again to see the
off icon
. - On the Tools menu, click Options. In the Options dialog box, make sure that Artboard is selected on the left, and then select the Snap to snaplines check box. Click OK.