# Any ideas for a substitute to dropdown?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/any-ideas-for-a-substitute-to-dropdown/55727>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition81\
**Created:** [February 3, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/any-ideas-for-a-substitute-to-dropdown/55727 "2022-02-03T19:03:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![mjohnson0238](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@mjohnson0238](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mjohnson0238)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/any-ideas-for-a-substitute-to-dropdown/55727/1 "2022-02-03T19:03:34Z")

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Good day! I am writing a page in perspective to select a piece of equipment (88 of them) and then display the last Workorders entered into our CMMS. At the moment I think im going to use a dropdown menu, but I was wondering if there was a better way to do this since it will have 88 entries in the dropdown menu.

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**Author:** ![josborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@josborn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/josborn)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/any-ideas-for-a-substitute-to-dropdown/55727/2 "2022-02-03T19:06:41Z")

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I don’t see a problem with using the drop down. You could also use a table.

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**Author:** ![swolnisty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@swolnisty](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/swolnisty)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/any-ideas-for-a-substitute-to-dropdown/55727/3 "2022-02-03T20:59:18Z")

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You could use a dropdown and set the props.search.enabled property to True (which I believe is true by default). That way users can type into the dropdown box to filter the number of options to choose from.

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**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 9:22am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/any-ideas-for-a-substitute-to-dropdown/55727/4 "2022-02-04T09:22:08Z")

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You might also want to increase the dropdown height so they see more options.  
Can be done with theme.css or my handy css injection trick 😉

> [@Dropdown Height](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-height/48271/2):
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> The theme.css is found in the theme module i think. i've not really used it. You can also inject it in a style class which will still work on every dropdown. If you arent used to css or dont not really gonna use it that often this should work for now. }.iaDropdownCommon\_options\_modal { max-height: 300px; }{ (300px or whatever you wish, 150px is standard atm) more info i posted here: edit newer versions +8.1.22(?): add \>div:first-child and !important Also suggested to use t…