# Ui dropdown problem
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [14 February 2019 06:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953 "2019-02-14T06:20:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@jamesho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jamesho)
#### Post date: [14 February 2019 06:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/1 "2019-02-14T06:20:06Z")
My ui dropdown will keep go back to highlight item when I try to move to top or bottom of the list. What cause it happen? Please help. thanks.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [14 February 2019 08:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/2 "2019-02-14T08:43:01Z")
which version of dashboard are you using ? how are you moving ? when does it move back ? can you share the relevant part of your flow that demonstrates the problem ?
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### Author:  [@jamesho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jamesho)
#### Post date: [14 February 2019 09:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/5 "2019-02-14T09:38:04Z")
I am using dashboard 2.13.2
when I drop down the list and try to go to bottom, if I do this not quick enough (in one seond), it will go back to original selected option.
Here is my sample flow:
```auto
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```
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [14 February 2019 09:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/6 "2019-02-14T09:47:51Z")
and which browser / platform are you viewing this on ?
(so far it's working ok ☹
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### Author:  [@jamesho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jamesho)
#### Post date: [14 February 2019 09:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/7 "2019-02-14T09:49:29Z")
I tried this on Chrome, IE on desktop and Chrome on android phone, they all have such problem.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [14 February 2019 09:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/8 "2019-02-14T09:53:18Z")
Are you sure you using exactly that flow ? I can only recreate if I keep hitting the inject button to reload the options.
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### Author:  [@jamesho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jamesho)
#### Post date: [14 February 2019 09:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/9 "2019-02-14T09:55:20Z")
For example, when I scroll down to the bottom of the list (ex. Item#20), not a while, it will go back to top. So it makes me very difficult to make a selection.
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### Author:  [@jamesho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jamesho)
#### Post date: [14 February 2019 09:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/10 "2019-02-14T09:57:57Z")
Do you mean there maybe a inject node to refresh the page somewhere?
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### Author:  [@jamesho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jamesho)
#### Post date: [14 February 2019 10:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/11 "2019-02-14T10:02:58Z")
Yes, this sample also has same problem on various platform.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [14 February 2019 10:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/12 "2019-02-14T10:04:28Z")
I'm still not getting it... I can wait for minutes and nothing happens... something else in your flow must be causing a refresh
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### Author:  [@jamesho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jamesho)
#### Post date: [14 February 2019 10:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/13 "2019-02-14T10:06:58Z")
Ok, thank you very much, at least I know this is not ui problem and I will try to find out the refresh node.
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### Author:  [@jamesho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jamesho)
#### Post date: [15 February 2019 01:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-dropdown-problem/7953/14 "2019-02-15T01:48:49Z")
I found out the problem: I have another flow, and there is a UDP node will receive data from device every 2 seconds and display the data to gauge. Dropdown and UDP, Gauge are not on the same tag, same page, but still causes whole site refresh. How can I solve this? thanks.