# Select option default

**URL:** <https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/select-option-default/1306>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 31, 2020, 10:36am UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/select-option-default/1306 "2020-03-31T10:36:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![alessandro92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@alessandro92](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/alessandro92)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 10:36am UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/select-option-default/1306/1 "2020-03-31T10:36:31Z")

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Hi,  
why doesn’t this Select field set my first option as default?

This field is grafted into a repeater

```
{
  "type": "set",
  "label": "Text",
  "options": {
    "fields": [
      {
        "type": "select",
        "name": "style",
        "label": "Layout",
        "options": {
          "options": {
            "singlecol": "Single Column",
            "multicol": "Multi Column"
          },
          "default": "singlecol"
        }
      },
      {
        "type": "wysiwyg",
        "name": "content",
        "label": "Text",
        "options": {
          "editor": {
            "toolbar": "undo redo | bold italic underline link | aligncenter",
            "formats": {
              "underline": {
                "inline": "u",
                "exact": true
              }
            },
            "default_link_target": "_blank",
            "entity_encoding": "raw",
            "forced_root_block": "",
            "menubar": false
          }
        }
      }

```

Thanks

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**Author:** ![artur](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.getcockpit.com/artur/32/4_2.png) [@artur](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/artur)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/select-option-default/1306/2 "2020-03-31T13:48:42Z")

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`default` property support for nested fields was added in the current `next` branch, [https://github.com/agentejo/cockpit/tree/next](https://github.com/agentejo/cockpit/tree/next)