/tags/layers/Recent content in Layers on Layer5 DocumentationHugoen/kanvas/reference/layout-and-layers/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/kanvas/reference/layout-and-layers/<p>Two controls decide how a design reads on screen. <strong>Layout</strong> arranges the components - where they sit relative to one another. <strong>Layers</strong> decide which of them are drawn at all.</p> <p>Both are recorded in the design rather than in your browser, so they travel with it: a layout writes the components&rsquo; positions, and the Layers panel writes their visibility into the design&rsquo;s preferences. Anyone else opening the design sees the same arrangement and the same components hidden. What neither touches is <strong>configuration</strong> - a hidden component is still part of the design and is still deployed, and re-running a layout changes only where components sit.</p>