How to Undo in Elementor

There are several situations where you’ll need to undo a change in Elementor. The most common: you moved a section and the layout broke, you changed a font or colour and it clashes with the rest of the design, or you edited the wrong element entirely. Any of these can send you back to the History panel fast.

Another common scenario is making a series of CSS or HTML adjustments to check how the CSS or HTML renders, and losing track of which edit caused a display problem. The History panel makes it easy to step back one action at a time until the issue disappears.

Here is how to undo in Elementor using both methods.

Keyboard shortcut (fastest method)

Press Ctrl+Z on Windows or Cmd+Z on Mac while in the Elementor editor. Each press steps back one action. This works for most common changes: element edits, style tweaks, and text changes, but it only goes as far back as the current session allows. If you need to undo more than a few steps, or you closed and reopened the editor, use the History panel instead.

To redo a change you just undid, press Ctrl+Y on Windows or Cmd+Shift+Z on Mac. This steps forward through the same history list.

Important: Elementor’s keyboard undo history is session-based. Once you close the Elementor editor and reopen it, the Ctrl+Z history is cleared. You cannot use Ctrl+Z to get back to a state from a previous editing session. For that, you need the Revisions tab.

Using the History panel

To open the History panel, click the history icon (clock icon) at the bottom of the Elementor left panel. The panel opens with two tabs:

Actions tab: Shows every change made in the current session — element added, style edited, section moved, and so on. Each entry includes the element name and the type of action. Click any item in the list to jump straight to that state. The bottom of the list shows “Editing Started”, which marks the beginning of the session.

Revisions tab: Shows every time the page was saved. Each revision is stamped with the date, time, and user who saved it. If you need to go back further than the current session — for instance, to a version from yesterday — switch to this tab and click the revision you want. Then click Apply to restore the page to that saved version.

The number of saved revisions depends on your WordPress settings. By default, WordPress stores unlimited revisions, but some hosts set a cap (often 10 or 20) to limit database size. If you only see a handful of revisions in the list, your host may have applied a limit via the WP_POST_REVISIONS constant in wp-config.php.

The Revisions tab is particularly useful after a significant redesign where multiple sessions worth of changes need to be undone. Rather than pressing Ctrl+Z dozens of times, find the right revision and apply it in one click.