# Hotkey to lock with children

**URL:** <https://community.penpot.app/t/hotkey-to-lock-with-children/10150>\
**Category:** Ask the community\
**Tags:** accesibility\
**Created:** [December 5, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/hotkey-to-lock-with-children/10150 "2025-12-05T18:41:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![ruslan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@ruslan](https://community.penpot.app/u/ruslan)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/hotkey-to-lock-with-children/10150/1 "2025-12-05T18:41:36Z")

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Currently Lock Shortcut (Ctrl + Shift + L) is not functioning in the same way as Lock Icon.

- Pressing Lock Icon locks the selected item and all its children recursively.
- Pressing Lock Shortcut locks only the selected item.

Is there a different shortcut to do deep Lock?