# Choice Dropdown behaviour for default values **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [June 9, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-dropdown-behaviour-for-default-values/82330 "2025-06-09T07:46:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ramya\_Venkatesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/ramya_venkatesh/32/88271_2.png) [@Ramya\_Venkatesh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ramya_Venkatesh)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-dropdown-behaviour-for-default-values/82330/1 "2025-06-09T07:46:27Z")
I’ve set up a few dropdowns for my custom search. I want to change a couple of things. 1. By default, I can see a dash (-) option available for when no items are selected. For my app, I’m considering this as ‘All options selected’. Is there a way to actually display ‘All’ instead of the dash? The dash can be confusing, it can mean all or nothing to the users. 2. I’m allowing multiselect in the dropdowns. But the UX is not very intuitive. I want to show a close button or something to that effect when the user is done selecting the options. Especially when the user wants to select just one of the dropdowns, the dropdown list doesn’t close unless clicked on it again. It’s more frustrating on mobile. Any suggestions on making the UX better in both of these cases? ![Screenshot 2025-06-09 at 1.09.52 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/1/8/186d743592979af5eb14f45a7728542a27016414.png) ---
**Author:** ![Ramya\_Venkatesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/ramya_venkatesh/32/88271_2.png) [@Ramya\_Venkatesh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ramya_Venkatesh)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-dropdown-behaviour-for-default-values/82330/2 "2025-06-09T13:22:36Z")
@Darren_Murphy Any suggestions on this one? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-dropdown-behaviour-for-default-values/82330/3 "2025-06-09T13:40:14Z")
> [@Ramya\_Venkatesh](#): > > By default, I can see a dash (-) option available for when no items are selected. For my app, I’m considering this as ‘All options selected’. Is there a way to actually display ‘All’ instead of the dash? The dash can be confusing, it can mean all or nothing to the users. If you make it required, that will get rid of the dash. You can then include “All” in your options list, and you will need to deal with that in your filtering logic. > [@Ramya\_Venkatesh](#): > > I’m allowing multiselect in the dropdowns. But the UX is not very intuitive. I want to show a close button or something to that effect when the user is done selecting the options. Especially when the user wants to select just one of the dropdowns, the dropdown list doesn’t close unless clicked on it again. It’s more frustrating on mobile. Yes, I’ve seen this and I agree that it isn’t great. But I believe it’s more about specific device behaviour than it is about Glide, and I don’t have any suggestions for improving it. ---
**Author:** ![Ramya\_Venkatesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/ramya_venkatesh/32/88271_2.png) [@Ramya\_Venkatesh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ramya_Venkatesh)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-dropdown-behaviour-for-default-values/82330/4 "2025-06-09T15:34:40Z")
Thanks. I don’t think including All in the options list will work well for what I’m looking at. I was thinking ‘All’ to be selected by default in the dropdown and the rest of the items are sorted alphabetically. It’s not possible to do both from what I see.. But I don’t think a clean solution exists right now for this. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-dropdown-behaviour-for-default-values/82330/5 "2025-06-09T22:59:27Z")
I assume this is on a tab level? If you have some type of navigation, you can set a value to that column when navigating to the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Ramya\_Venkatesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/ramya_venkatesh/32/88271_2.png) [@Ramya\_Venkatesh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ramya_Venkatesh)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-dropdown-behaviour-for-default-values/82330/6 "2025-06-10T05:58:00Z")
Yes, this is one of the main tabs in the navigation. I don’t see an option to add action there though. Also, not sure if the ordering criteria can be met either way. Perhaps, the dash is a better option at this point.