diff --git a/packages/excalidraw/components/App.tsx b/packages/excalidraw/components/App.tsx
index ba6e847b2..080eb26fc 100644
--- a/packages/excalidraw/components/App.tsx
+++ b/packages/excalidraw/components/App.tsx
@@ -2072,6 +2072,7 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
                           />
                         )}
                         <InteractiveCanvas
+                          app={this}
                           containerRef={this.excalidrawContainerRef}
                           canvas={this.interactiveCanvas}
                           elementsMap={elementsMap}
diff --git a/packages/excalidraw/components/canvases/InteractiveCanvas.tsx b/packages/excalidraw/components/canvases/InteractiveCanvas.tsx
index 21ecbfef3..efca26e4c 100644
--- a/packages/excalidraw/components/canvases/InteractiveCanvas.tsx
+++ b/packages/excalidraw/components/canvases/InteractiveCanvas.tsx
@@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ import type {
   RenderableElementsMap,
   RenderInteractiveSceneCallback,
 } from "../../scene/types";
-import type { AppState, Device, InteractiveCanvasAppState } from "../../types";
+import type {
+  AppClassProperties,
+  AppState,
+  Device,
+  InteractiveCanvasAppState,
+} from "../../types";
 import type { DOMAttributes } from "react";
 
 type InteractiveCanvasProps = {
@@ -36,6 +41,7 @@ type InteractiveCanvasProps = {
   appState: InteractiveCanvasAppState;
   renderScrollbars: boolean;
   device: Device;
+  app: AppClassProperties;
   renderInteractiveSceneCallback: (
     data: RenderInteractiveSceneCallback,
   ) => void;
@@ -145,6 +151,8 @@ const InteractiveCanvas = (props: InteractiveCanvasProps) => {
           remotePointerUserStates,
           selectionColor,
           renderScrollbars: props.renderScrollbars,
+          // NOTE not memoized on so we don't rerender on cursor move
+          lastViewportPosition: props.app.lastViewportPosition,
         },
         device: props.device,
         callback: props.renderInteractiveSceneCallback,
diff --git a/packages/excalidraw/renderer/interactiveScene.ts b/packages/excalidraw/renderer/interactiveScene.ts
index 5cd03a8fb..8ac027813 100644
--- a/packages/excalidraw/renderer/interactiveScene.ts
+++ b/packages/excalidraw/renderer/interactiveScene.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import {
+  pointDistance,
   pointFrom,
   pointsEqual,
   type GlobalPoint,
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ import {
   invariant,
   THEME,
   throttleRAF,
+  viewportCoordsToSceneCoords,
 } from "@excalidraw/common";
 
 import {
@@ -192,6 +194,7 @@ const renderBindingHighlightForBindableElement = (
   elementsMap: RenderableElementsMap,
   allElementsMap: NonDeletedSceneElementsMap,
   appState: InteractiveCanvasAppState,
+  renderConfig: InteractiveCanvasRenderConfig,
 ) => {
   switch (element.type) {
     case "magicframe":
@@ -337,16 +340,32 @@ const renderBindingHighlightForBindableElement = (
       break;
   }
 
+  const { x: cursorX, y: cursorY } = viewportCoordsToSceneCoords(
+    {
+      clientX: renderConfig.lastViewportPosition.x,
+      clientY: renderConfig.lastViewportPosition.y,
+    },
+    appState,
+  );
+
   // Draw center snap area
   context.save();
   context.translate(element.x + appState.scrollX, element.y + appState.scrollY);
-  context.strokeStyle = "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)";
+  context.strokeStyle = "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2)";
   context.lineWidth = 1 / appState.zoom.value;
   context.setLineDash([4 / appState.zoom.value, 4 / appState.zoom.value]);
   context.lineDashOffset = 0;
-  context.fillStyle = "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01)";
 
   const radius = 0.5 * (Math.min(element.width, element.height) / 2);
+  const centerX = element.x + element.width / 2;
+  const centerY = element.y + element.height / 2;
+
+  const isInsideEllipse =
+    pointDistance(pointFrom(cursorX, cursorY), pointFrom(centerX, centerY)) <=
+    radius;
+
+  context.fillStyle = isInsideEllipse ? "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04)" : "transparent";
+
   context.beginPath();
   context.ellipse(
     element.width / 2,
@@ -899,6 +918,7 @@ const _renderInteractiveScene = ({
       elementsMap,
       allElementsMap,
       appState,
+      renderConfig,
     );
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/excalidraw/scene/types.ts b/packages/excalidraw/scene/types.ts
index 12a5e27a8..35775f089 100644
--- a/packages/excalidraw/scene/types.ts
+++ b/packages/excalidraw/scene/types.ts
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ export type InteractiveCanvasRenderConfig = {
   remotePointerUsernames: Map<SocketId, string>;
   remotePointerButton: Map<SocketId, string | undefined>;
   selectionColor: string;
+  lastViewportPosition: { x: number; y: number };
   // extra options passed to the renderer
   // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
   renderScrollbars?: boolean;