# Box selection issue

**URL:** <https://community.penpot.app/t/box-selection-issue/8060>\
**Category:** Ask the community\
**Created:** [March 8, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/box-selection-issue/8060 "2025-03-08T05:33:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![c8n](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/c8n/32/7369_2.png) [@c8n](https://community.penpot.app/u/c8n)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/box-selection-issue/8060/1 "2025-03-08T05:33:46Z")

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In every other program that I have used when you use box selection only items that are fully within the selection area are selected, but with penpot any item that is partially within the selection is selected. That means to select a number of things within something else, you have to select each of those items individually, which makes the app almost unusable.

Does this not happen for anyone else, or is there a way to perform the selection as one would expect that I am missing?