# Buttons on my canvas move as I resize or maximize the browser window. How do I stop this?

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- Sketch’s main canvas reference is inside undocumented variable _\_renderer_.
- Its coordinates are _\_renderer.x_ & _\_renderer.y_.
- Its dimensions are _width_ & _height_.
- Use those values above as base for method [p5.Element::**position()**](https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5.Element/position).

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