Making GUI appear on top of other GUI

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#1

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In my game, I have an ImageLabel (the white square) with a TextLabel inside of it (the 1x)

You can see how the 1x is appearing behind a separate ImageLabel to its right, and my question is, how can I fix this?

Changing the ZIndex of the TextLabel hasn’t fixed it, and both the ImageLabels have the same ZIndex

#2

Change the ZIndex of the ImageLabel, not the TextLabel

#3

I’ve tried, and that works. But, each ImageLabel represents an object in a player’s inventory, meaning ImageLabels will need to be frequently added and removed

Is there no way to make the TextLabel automatically appear on top of any ImageLabel without having to use a script to manually find what the ZIndex should be each time?

#4

The problem of setting ui elements and parenting is that if let’s say you have a frame and a textlabel in it you duplicate that frame, the problem here is that the cloned Frame with the TextLabel will “win the Z-Fighting” and the cloned frame will be overwriting the original frame. The only real solution (in what I found to not set the Z-Index) is to parent the frame somewhere else and the parent it back, but this gets annoying too. So my best advice to just space out the item frames a bit further away so that “1x” is not under the imagelabel.

Maybe someone else can help with that problem but this is the best solution i got

#5

Ok, thanks for the info. I’ll give it a little bit, and if I can’t find a better answer or nobody else replies with a better answer, I’ll mark this as a solution for now :+1:

#6

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I found a way, even though its not perfect, but it’s good enough for now. I moved the icons into a new ScreenGui and set the new ScreenGui’s “ZIndexBehavior” property to global, so each TextLabel has its own independent ZIndex that isn’t influenced its parent’s ZIndex

I do think this should be a property of all gui objects, so you can change how ZIndex works for anything inside of specific gui objects, but unfortunately it’s not a thing for all gui objects

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