# Adornments

Adornments are labels that you can add to the background of a map view to help organize the map. You can adjust the size, placement, color, and text color of an adornment. Maps may have many adornments, or none. Adornments do not appear in any other views. Adornments can serve to label neighborhoods in a map view, but they do not affect the hierarchy or the links of any notes.

To create an adornment

- choose Create Adornment… from the Note menu.

> OR

- right-click in the background of a map view and choose Create Adornment….

### Locking Adornments

It it often convenient to lock the position of large adornments. The attribute `$Lock` fixes an adornment's (or note's) position in the map, preventing it from being inadvertently moved.

To lock (or unlock) an adornment

- select the adornment
- click the Lock icon,

> OR

- select the adornment
- click the Lock checkbox in the More pane of the Properties Inspector.

### To make an adornment "sticky"

If an adornment is sticky, objects lying on the adornment will stick to the adornment when the adornment is moved. This makes it much easier to work with large, complex maps, allowing you to move whole sections of notes together.

To toggle 'sticky'

- select the adornment
- click the pushpin icon to make the adornment sticky,

> OR

- select the adornment
- click the Lock checkbox in the More pane of the Properties Inspector.

### Grids

Adornments may have an optional grid, letting you divide the adornment into equally-sized rows, columns, or into both rows and columns. For example, you might choose a grid of five columns, labelled “Monday” through “Friday”

To add or change a grid, click on the adornment’s Grid Button. The grid popover lets you select the color and appearance of the adornment grid. If you wish to add labels to the grid, enter the labels as a list, separated by semicolons, from left to right and from top to bottom.

Note that grid properties are controlled by corresponding attributes, such as $GridColumns, $GridRows, $GridColor, and $GridLabels. Thus, grid properties may be inherited from prototypes or altered by rules or actions.

- Image Adornments