Unity: UI prefabs go invisible when i Instantiate it

Question

I have a custom UI element in the Mainmenu scene that works fine, but when i make a prefab out of it, all the text and images become invisible, and the rect transform goes blank

The orginal prefab

the instatiated invisible prefab

Answer 1

You should instantiate it as a child object of Canvas.

Instantiate(prefab, thatCanvas.transform);