UI Widget Blueprints - How to get canvas panel to show by default?

[Chris_Nye]

When creating the losing screen I discovered another Unreal gotcha that may be worth mentioning (as Unreal is famous for its many… many… MANY gotchas).

I created my blueprint widget as instructed and opened it.
It does not start with a canvas panel.

So I drag text block out into the screen.

No anchors.

So I right click on Text Block, choose “Wrap With…” and then in that long list of things I choose Canvas Panel.

Canvas panel created. All is well.

However thats a fairly evil thing for someone to stumble upon as a beginner when the lecture just shows it opening and its just there.

Is there a magic setting that just has canvas panel available by default?
Is this an unreal 5.0.2 vs 4.x difference?

[arodi007]

Yup it not the default for UE5, you can drag and drop it from the panel:

And no there no option we can enable by default from what i seen.

[Chris_Nye]

Ah I missed that you could also drag it in that way. Thanks for that reply I will add it to my review notes.