Title: Selecting Blocks
Last modified: December 23, 2021

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# Selecting Blocks

 *  [johnctripp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnctripp/)
 * (@johnctripp)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/selecting-blocks/)
 * As a designer used to actually selecting the area I’m working on, as in say Illustrator,
   I find it tedious to actually be able to select a block. I spend way too much
   time moving the cursor around until the entire block or element I want to work
   on gets selected. What am I missing about selecting blocks?
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fselecting-blocks%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Topher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/topher1kenobe/)
 * (@topher1kenobe)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/selecting-blocks/#post-15192136)
 * It’s a pain for sure. Here’s a little help: in the top bar, above the title, 
   there’s an icon that is three little horizontal lines, offset from each other,
   like stairs. Click those and you’ll get a hierarchical list of the blocks. You
   can easily select any block or any internal component.
 * ADDITIONALLY, look at the Block Navigation plugin. It puts something similar 
   in the top right, but you can ALSO drag and drop blocks and elements inside the
   list. Excellent for ordering things properly.
 *  Thread Starter [johnctripp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnctripp/)
 * (@johnctripp)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/selecting-blocks/#post-15193972)
 * Will try your suggestions, thanks! Hopefully blocks will evolve where one can
   easily select and work on them.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [johnctripp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnctripp/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/selecting-blocks/#post-15193972)
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