# Moving selected tiles to other layer?

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/moving-selected-tiles-to-other-layer/1017>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [January 12, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/moving-selected-tiles-to-other-layer/1017 "2016-01-12T16:20:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![rwols](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rwols](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/rwols)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 1:12pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/moving-selected-tiles-to-other-layer/1017/3 "2016-09-05T13:12:40Z")

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I think this is still kind of a hassle. Why not add a new menu option to the “Layer” menu that lights up when some tiles are selected and has the title “Move Selection to New Layer”, or “Move Selection to Existing Layer” and have a modal dialog pop up when existing tiles on that existing layer will get overwritten?

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