# Display selected drop down value in markdown in Canvas

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-selected-drop-down-value-in-markdown-in-canvas/208851>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** canvas\
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-selected-drop-down-value-in-markdown-in-canvas/208851 "2019-11-21T09:59:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![atamarnath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atamarnath/32/57083_2.png) [@atamarnath](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atamarnath)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-selected-drop-down-value-in-markdown-in-canvas/208851/1 "2019-11-21T09:59:36Z")

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In a canvas, we have a drop down filter and a Markdown. How do I display the selected value from drop down control in Markdown? Basically I have some text in the markdown and want to include the selected value from the drop down as part of the text in Markdown

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-selected-drop-down-value-in-markdown-in-canvas/208851/2 "2019-11-21T14:52:51Z")

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Here's an example for you:

```auto
dropdownControl valueColumn="state" filterColumn="state"

```

```auto
filters
| demodata
| markdown {getCell "state"} 
  font={font family="'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size=48 align="center" color="#444444" weight="normal" underline=false italic=false}
| render

```

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**Author:** ![atamarnath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atamarnath/32/57083_2.png) [@atamarnath](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atamarnath)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-selected-drop-down-value-in-markdown-in-canvas/208851/3 "2019-11-21T15:21:48Z")

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Thanks [Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory). It works. I have replaced the demodata with the query that I used to load the dropdowncontrol

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**Author:** ![atamarnath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atamarnath/32/57083_2.png) [@atamarnath](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atamarnath)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-selected-drop-down-value-in-markdown-in-canvas/208851/4 "2019-11-21T16:07:29Z")

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Hi [Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory), It seem to work when a value is selected in the dropdown filter. But when nothing is selected in the dropdown filter markdown still prints the top row of the index instead not printing anything. When nothing is selected in the dropdown I don't want anything to be printed in markdown

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-selected-drop-down-value-in-markdown-in-canvas/208851/5 "2019-12-19T16:07:36Z")

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