topic Re: Contents pane jumping in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Contents pane jumping

PhilipViljoen — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:01:56 GMT

When clicking and editing a layer in the contents pane, it keeps losing focus and jumps somewhere else entirely after any layer change and i need to scroll back to the layer and highlight again. Frustrating when the contents pane has so many layers loaded. Its wasting time and focus. How can i keep the layer active until am done with it. I recently upgraded to 3.7.1 but it is still doing it. It was not like that with 3.6

Re: Contents pane jumping

ChrisUnderwood — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:22:55 GMT

Hello @PhilipViljoen , can you add some details of the particular steps you follow when you see this problem, perhaps adding some screenshots etc too ? Then we can try to reproduce the same thing ourselves.

Re: Contents pane jumping

JonM32 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:26:11 GMT

@PhilipViljoen @ChrisUnderwood

I had the same thing happen, I'm in 3.7.

Workflow for me

Working in a map layout
Need to change label properties for a layer; for example: change font type or size
Select layer in map, change label properties
The layer I made the change on that was selected becomes unselected and the label pane becomes inactive.
I have to go to the contents pane and reselect the layer to make another single change in the label pane.

Re: Contents pane jumping

ChrisUnderwood — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:34:12 GMT

@JonM32 @PhilipViljoen , no I don't see a problem like that. I can make a change to the Font Name, then straight away make another change to the Size, without the need to reselect anything.

Perhaps a screenshot from your ArcGIS Pro would make it clearer to me ?

Re: Contents pane jumping

JonM32 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:23:23 GMT

@ChrisUnderwood

Can do. I'll be working in my project where it's been happening today and can take a video when it acts up. Currently, it's not doing it but was fairly frequent earlier this week.