# Drag and drop feature for moving main component

**URL:** <https://community.penpot.app/t/drag-and-drop-feature-for-moving-main-component/7692>\
**Category:** Help us improve Penpot\
**Tags:** ui-design, feature-request, component\
**Created:** [January 30, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/drag-and-drop-feature-for-moving-main-component/7692 "2025-01-30T15:42:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Hermine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hermine](https://community.penpot.app/u/Hermine)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/drag-and-drop-feature-for-moving-main-component/7692/1 "2025-01-30T15:42:53Z")

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Hello,  
I’m a new Penpot user. It’s a great experience at v2.4 release. I observed that certain UI designs could be more **intuitive**.

I encountered an issue when trying to move several main components from one page to another – **copying and pasting** only creates instances on the new page, but the original components remain.

@ [tank666](https://community.penpot.app/u/tank666) gave a very good solution, suggesting that I can achieve this by **cutting and pasting** the main components. It works well.

However, I found this method somewhat implicite, a drag-and-drop feature would make moving elements more intuitive.

This is my question : [How to move the main component between pages](https://community.penpot.app/t/question-how-to-move-the-main-component-between-pages/7686/2)

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**Author:** ![myfunnyandy](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/myfunnyandy/32/54_2.png) [@myfunnyandy](https://community.penpot.app/u/myfunnyandy)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/drag-and-drop-feature-for-moving-main-component/7692/2 "2025-01-31T10:44:42Z")

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Interesting proposal! We agree that there’s room for improvement in this use case and we already have other ideas to better solve it.

I’ve added this proposal to [the user story](https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/us/6810?backlog-q=main%20compo&no-milestone=1) so it can be considered at the appropriate time.