Layers button greyed out and can't edit the elements now

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March 9, 2025
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Hi, I have been working on a Adobe Express project, and all of a sudden today I noticed the layers button is greyed out and I can't select elements for modification. I tried it on different web browsers, IE 11, Chrome, and new Firefox, but it had the same behaviour. Tried going to an earlier version, but there was no change. Could someone help me with this, please?

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Abhi.G @ ADBE

Adobe Employee

Hi @krishna78598113

Do you happen to have a lot of objects on the page? The layer widget can't support more than a certain number (200, I believe).

Hope this helps,

Abhi G

krishna78598113Author

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Thanks for your time Abhi. Yes, I had a lot of objects/layers, but later grouped them to reduce the number of layers. However I deleted a couple objects to see if that made any difference, but still it is greyed out. At the moment I am stuck with this diagram as I can't edit individual objects.

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Abhi.G @ ADBE

Adobe Employee

Hi @krishna78598113

For this limitation, grouping does not matter (5 objects grouped as 1 still count as 5), but deleting does. It's not ideal, but the only recommendation I have is to break the diagram down into smaller chunks: copy sections to different pages, download them as transparent pngs (without background fill) and use a separate page to combine the downloaded assets.

Abhi G

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