https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/category-dropdown-resets Gravity Support Forums Topic: Category dropdown resets en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:49:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/category-dropdown-resets#post-3389 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:21:56 +0000 Carl Hancock 3389@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It looks like this is a bug with the Post Category field. We'll get this resolved in the next release. Thanks! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/category-dropdown-resets#post-3377 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:56:44 +0000 seemsse 3377@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Actually I'm just using the category dropdown field provided in the form setup and I select the categories I want to appear in the dropdown. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/category-dropdown-resets#post-3369 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:16:15 +0000 Erwin van den Boogaard 3369@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>In my case it's via Jan Egbert's suggestion described here:<br /> <a href="http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text" rel="nofollow">http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text</a><br /> <pre><code>add_filter( &#39;gform_pre_render_7&#39;, &#39;populate_dropdown&#39; ); function populate_dropdown($form) { [bunch of code] }</code></pre> <p>But note that it does populate. It's the selected value that gets reset. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/category-dropdown-resets#post-3361 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:44:52 +0000 Carl Hancock 3361@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It's going to depend on how you are pre-populating the field.</p> <p>Since you, and not Gravity Forms, are pre-populating the field... when validation happens it doesn't know that the field needs to be pre-populated. so depending on how you are doing it, it's not going to happen.</p> <p>What method are you using to pre-populate the field? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/category-dropdown-resets#post-3355 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:01:15 +0000 Erwin van den Boogaard 3355@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>After all the trouble I had populating the drop down and pre-selecting a value, I discovered the same reset problem. This definitely needs to be fixed, but like seemsse asked: how? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/category-dropdown-resets#post-3353 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:07:10 +0000 seemsse 3353@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have setup a form to create a post and I have a dropdown of selected categories. I was testing the form and I did not fill out one of the required text fields. After receiving the validation messages I noticed that my category dropdown reset back to the first category listed. This is a problem since the category dropdown did not receive a validation message, many people will fill in the fields they missed and hit submit without checking the category again. </p> <p>Is there a way to fix this?</p> <p>Thanks, </p>