# Does anybody know how to change colors for the dropdown selector?

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/does-anybody-know-how-to-change-colors-for-the-dropdown-selector/80222>\
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**Created:** [February 21, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/does-anybody-know-how-to-change-colors-for-the-dropdown-selector/80222 "2025-02-21T14:57:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![williamlopes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/278dde/32.png) [@williamlopes](https://community.glideapps.com/u/williamlopes)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/does-anybody-know-how-to-change-colors-for-the-dropdown-selector/80222/1 "2025-02-21T14:57:55Z")

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Hi Guys! My name is William Lopes, and I am new here… I am creating a interface for our laboratory and we were using AirTable’s interface. I know it may sound a little funny but in Airtable we had a color coded grid where we would mark off tasks for each patient that comes in and I would like to accomplish the same in Glide.

Example from Airtable:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/c/a/cabbf6b6dd0481f2135dcfd186c13de514d315b5.png)

What I am trying to do (I had to do a little workaround with emojis for now haha)

 ![Screenshot 2025-02-21 at 9.57.17 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/2/b/2bae4ca09ac6e125d754c12f6385a231b3f2d8e8.png)

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**Author:** ![Mariusz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mariusz/32/89415_2.png) [@Mariusz](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mariusz)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/does-anybody-know-how-to-change-colors-for-the-dropdown-selector/80222/2 "2025-02-21T16:28:40Z")

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Hi William, welcome to Glide Community! 😃

Yes, you can do it with Glide too. Just select the Tag as the column type in your table, point to a column containing the choices and define the column containing custom colors for your tags. If you don’t specify the colors, they will be applied automatically.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/5/c/5c78969521a93d9be0b80e54ab78f31f08009d8d.png)

Here’s an example from the backend (unrelated to the screenshot above where the colors are automatically assigned)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/a/9/a9511e83ae6dcd182adab874c685269e275611f8.png)