Storyboard element locations are off - ios

I am currently building a project using storyboards and am having an issue when trying to select elements. When I try and click on an element, it selects the element a bit under it, and to select a certain element I have to aim above it. I have disabled the adjustment of scroll view insets, so I am not sure as to why this is happening. I've attached some demonstration photos. Any help is appreciated, Thanks!
Here I am selecting the "Like" Button:
And here I am selecting the image of a palm tree:

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I have an collectionview with invested ellements inside. The objects coming as images. So the problem is taping on these elements. I can`t pick elements from this window, and Accessibility Inspector showing my whole window with elements as button with missing accessibility values.
Image of Accessibility Inspector
So, if I am using just Record button, then I am getting this code, but it doesn`t work to play. I still have no lables and indexes.
XCUIApplication().childrenMatchingType(.Window).elementBoundByIndex(0).childrenMatchingType(.Other).element.childrenMatchingType(.Other).element.childrenMatchingType(.Other).element.childrenMatchingType(.Other).element.childrenMatchingType(.Other).element.childrenMatchingType(.Other).element.childrenMatchingType(.Button).element.tap()
Does anyone know, how to solve this problem?
Try to access control in following manner (better to debug and check value of each element in progressive manner using po)
[XCUIApplication.buttons elementBoundbyIndex:0]
Or
[[[XCUIApplication.windows elementBoundbyIndex:0] buttons] elementBoundbyIndex:0] ... so on.

Selecting all outlets on xcode ios 8

I was just wondering how I can select all outlets on xcode ios 8. Some of my labels are on top of each other, so I cant select them.
Thanks
Probably the most useful secret trick in Xcode's nib editor is to Shift-Control-click on an interface item in the canvas. This gives a menu where you can select that interface item or anything behind it.
If I understand you correctly, you are trying to select some elements but because they are overlapping you can't get to them.
Click on the box with a line in it as show in the illustration and it will show all your elements and you can select it from their. In previous Xcode versions it was an arrow instead of a line.
Thank you #matt for pointing out, that is called the Document Outline.

JQuery sortable (items with various heights) moving to first or last position is troublesome

Problem
I am having problems with my sortable list with several items of various height. The problem occurs when I'm trying to move a larger item to the first or last position (which both have smaller objects). If I succeed currently depends very much on where on the larger item I click and start dragging.
If I want to move the item to the smaller bottom position I must click close to the bottom of the item for it to work, and if I want to drag it to the top position I must click closely to the top. But I want to be able to drag the item by clicking anywhere.
Some additional information
The items cannot be dragged outside the parent and the parent is only as large as it has to be and a scroll appears if it's larger than it's container. So it seems that I cannot drag the larger item past the first(smaller) item if I don't drag it in the top part of the item.
I've been trying to fix this by using cursorAt and using top:0 and another test using bottom:0 But it doesn't seem to make any difference (so I might have misunderstood how to use it). I am currently using tolerance: pointer.
I can bypass the problem of not being able to drag the larger item to the last position by temporary during the sorting increasing the height with the height of the dragged item. But it doesn't always work and its not a very good solution. And the problem of not being able to drag it to the top still appears?
I cannot change the JQuery code as in jquery-sortable-with-containment-parent-and-different-item-heights
Question:
How can I drag a larger item to the top or bottom position while allowing the user to click anywhere on the item?
Thanks for your help!
This might not solve your problem, but I thought I'd share the results of some experimenting I did today. I needed to make a sortable photo gallery with inline-block pictures of varying widths, and found that moving wider photos would be really hard work because the placeholder was smaller than the item I was moving. I ended up using this:
container.sortable({
placeholder: "photo placeholder",
start: function (event, ui) {
ui.placeholder.width(ui.item.width());
}
});
The custom placeholder classes are there to ensure the placeholder isn't hidden by default, and the start event ensures that the placeholder is the same width as the item you're about to move. This worked very well for me, and in your case, substituting height for width might work.
I also tried using containment as you have done, and found that it sometimes makes things much harder depending on the items in the row. Like you have explained, including tolerance: "pointer" helps to alleviate the issues, but if possible, removing containment generally makes the UI more forgiving.

In Xcode Interface Builder - why are the options in the Editor--->Arrange menu (containing Send to Front, Send to Back) often disabled?

What I'm trying to do is simple: bring a label in front of an image within a subview.
But all of the options for arranging are disabled/un-selectable when my label is selected. I find this happens often.
What could be the reason that I'm almost never allowed to change the z-axis of my objects in the Arrange menu? Is it a better practice to avoid this feature and set the order of views programmatically?
It can depend on how you have selected the label (similar to how the label can only be moved with the keyboard when selected in some ways).
A simple alternative is to look at the list of view in the pane on the left and to drag the views up and down to change the order.
It happens sometimes. In that situation, click the view or image you want to send back then you will see little square box at the edges of image from which you can re size your image, Just click on it once and then go to Editor > Arrange > Choose option according your need.

How to select background views in a storyboard or xib

If I select a view with my mouse in a storyboard or xib, Xcode will select the front most view. I know that I can select the other views in the document outline, but if I want to grab a background view to move it with my mouse, the front most view gets selected again when I click in the storyboard.
I think there is a way to cycle through the views and select the ones in the back by holding down on some keys, but I can't find what it is. Does anyone know?
I'm using Xcode 4.6. I know that I can also move background views using the size inspector, but I'm looking for a way to position them with my mouse.
One way is to use the jump bar at the top of the editor. It's the control that shows the path of objects leading to the current selection.
Another way is to press control+shift and left click (or shift right click) an item. That shows you all of the objects under the mouse in a menu, and allows you to disambiguate the one you meant to select.
The good news: Place your mouse on the overlapped images, press and hold shift and right click the mouse. You should see the list of objects, select your object in the back. You can resize as you wish.
The bad news: you can only use the cursor arrows if you want to move it!
Select the view from the menu on the left of interface builder.

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