# Dropdown not displaying value correctly **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [July 18, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682 "2025-07-18T17:21:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chaerrydairy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@chaerrydairy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chaerrydairy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/1 "2025-07-18T17:21:31Z")
I have a dropdown in my view with hardcoded options available (I know its not the best, but I am hoping it will work). I have a display table on the view as well and I am trying to get the dropdown to display the data of the row I click on in the display table. I have set a binding to the "value" property of the dropdown and I can see in the Property editor that the value is changing according to the selected row on the display table but it doesnt show the value itself on the dropdown. Any idea how to make the value actually display on the dropdown itself? ![Untitled](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/b/a/bac53aea588b79ed50512262c3b8d8087bd6aa24.png) ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/2 "2025-07-18T17:29:00Z")
Does the value in the table _ **exactly** _ match the dropdown option? (Case, spaces). ---
**Author:** ![chaerrydairy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@chaerrydairy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chaerrydairy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/3 "2025-07-18T17:47:03Z")
Yes they are the same, but they are hard coded in ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/4 "2025-07-18T17:51:50Z")
Have you placed the designer in Preview mode? ---
**Author:** ![chaerrydairy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@chaerrydairy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chaerrydairy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/5 "2025-07-18T17:52:58Z")
Yes, and I also have a session going where I have tested as well. ---
**Author:** ![tgarrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tgarrison/32/80965_2.png) [@tgarrison](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tgarrison)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/6 "2025-07-18T18:00:19Z")
If you can show us the Options expanded that would be good. Make sure there is no extra leading or trailing space on the value coming from the table... Fix that "Enabled" binding.. it's showing an error, and not really taking that true value, since it's not showing the checkbox... ---
**Author:** ![chaerrydairy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@chaerrydairy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chaerrydairy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/7 "2025-07-18T18:09:34Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/a/1abd6c8feb0e0f09042390d34b9ef00e7f429f60.png) The enabled binding is just there for test purposes for now, so it will be removed ---
**Author:** ![tgarrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tgarrison/32/80965_2.png) [@tgarrison](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tgarrison)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/8 "2025-07-18T18:21:51Z")
There's you're problem. The dropdown displays the label. The value has to match the value of the option. So you'll have to decide how to handle that.. either "search" the options for the matching label and get it's value, or hardcode it.. ---
**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/9 "2025-07-18T19:02:50Z")
Suggestion: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/e/4ee47e3e17b001e1cc6d6430cad25e19052853cd.png) Why does it matter? Look at the path the eye follows to read the view: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/4/e436dfb1dfc433c51758542ed7ee5fbeaf23ccd2.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/1/21cf504446e50fd953faabfe8f1ebdfa7eac9593.png) ---
**Author:** ![chaerrydairy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@chaerrydairy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chaerrydairy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/10 "2025-07-21T12:36:56Z")
That makes a lot of sense, I will change the layout so it is all one column ---
**Author:** ![chaerrydairy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@chaerrydairy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chaerrydairy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/11 "2025-07-21T17:59:54Z")
I redid the layout in the project browser so that the inputs/text boxes can all be in one column but am having trouble formatting it correctly so that it looks nice and clean. How do I line them all up nicely? ![{C2F21C7A-D937-44B1-ABB3-16F4277B4194}](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/8/1876f41e6cd6fa4a462d3f9183d8d9a27f52fbad.png) ---
**Author:** ![tgarrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tgarrison/32/80965_2.png) [@tgarrison](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tgarrison)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/12 "2025-07-21T18:44:16Z")
What I would normally do is force either the dropdowns or the labels to a fixed width with a Grow/Shrink of 0/0. Then set the other to auto with Grow/Shrink of 1/1 or 1/0 to fill the rest of the column. And set the labels to "align:right" That assumes those are all flex rows inside a flex column.. ---
**Author:** ![chaerrydairy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@chaerrydairy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chaerrydairy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/13 "2025-07-21T19:29:02Z")
This did make it look nice but looks a little off in larger screens but this works great for now, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dropdown-not-displaying-value-correctly/108682/14 "2025-07-21T22:51:44Z")
You can set the width of the flex containing those dropdowns and labels so it doesn't stretch on large screens. I would be using rem units so it expands if the root font size changes