diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
index cb8df52d..1897bf04 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
@@ -1484,7 +1484,9 @@ fn hatch(polys: &[Vec<Pos2>], gap: f32) -> Vec<[Pos2; 2]> {
 }
 
 /// The layers that get canvas labels and layout grids, in z-order: the page's visible top-level
-/// layers and, inside sections whose contents show, their visible children (sections nest).
+/// layers and, inside sections whose contents show, their visible children (sections nest). A
+/// section comes after its children, so its title pill draws over (and takes clicks from) the
+/// labels of frames near its top-left (#1150).
 fn boards(doc: &Document, page: NodeId) -> Vec<NodeId> {
     fn walk(doc: &Document, id: NodeId, depth: usize, out: &mut Vec<NodeId>) {
         let Some(n) = doc.node(id) else { return };
@@ -1493,10 +1495,10 @@ fn boards(doc: &Document, page: NodeId) -> Vec<NodeId> {
             if !cn.visible {
                 continue;
             }
-            out.push(*c);
             if matches!(cn.kind, NodeKind::Section { contents_hidden: false }) && depth < 32 {
                 walk(doc, *c, depth + 1, out);
             }
+            out.push(*c);
         }
     }
     let mut out = Vec::new();
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/frame_label_tests.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/frame_label_tests.rs
index 687669e8..6c15fc00 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/frame_label_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/frame_label_tests.rs
@@ -156,3 +156,23 @@ fn a_sections_label_renames_it_and_a_click_elsewhere_commits() {
     assert!(u.app.ui.rename_label.is_none());
     assert_eq!(u.app.session.ds().unwrap().history.undo.len(), undo + 1, "one undo step");
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn a_sections_pill_is_above_the_labels_of_frames_inside_it() {
+    // A frame near the section's top-left puts its label over the section's pill (#1150): the pill
+    // draws last, so pressing where they overlap selects the section.
+    let mut s = Session::new();
+    let sec = id(s.execute("node.create", &json!({"type": "section", "x": 0, "y": 0, "width": 300, "height": 200, "name": "Marketing"})).unwrap());
+    let f = id(s.execute("frame.create", &json!({"x": 10, "y": 22, "width": 100, "height": 80, "name": "Icon card", "parent": sec})).unwrap());
+    s.execute("select.none", &json!({})).unwrap();
+    let mut u = Ui::new(s);
+    u.frame(vec![]);
+    let at = mid(&label(&u, sec));
+    let frame_label = egui::Rect::from_points(&label(&u, f));
+    assert!(frame_label.contains(at), "the frame's label {frame_label:?} overlaps the pill at {at:?}");
+    let order: Vec<NodeId> = u.app.session.tool.labels.iter().map(|(id, _)| *id).collect();
+    assert_eq!(order, vec![f, sec], "the section's label comes after (above) its frames'");
+    u.button(at, true);
+    u.button(at, false);
+    assert_eq!(u.app.session.selection(), vec![sec]);
+}