# Disable some options in a dropdown?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-some-options-in-a-dropdown/16165>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [November 29, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-some-options-in-a-dropdown/16165 "2017-11-29T18:20:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![brian.mcenulty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b77776/32.png) [@brian.mcenulty](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brian.mcenulty)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-some-options-in-a-dropdown/16165/1 "2017-11-29T18:20:07Z")

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Is it possible to disable / grey out some of the options within a dropdown list given a condition?

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**Author:** ![craigb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@craigb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/craigb)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-some-options-in-a-dropdown/16165/2 "2018-08-05T15:46:05Z")

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Not sure about graying them out but if your populating the drop down from a sql query you can remove some options in the where claus.