# Multi-Select order

**URL:** <https://forum.modmore.com/t/multi-select-order/2559>\
**Category:** ContentBlocks\
**Created:** [June 19, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.modmore.com/t/multi-select-order/2559 "2024-06-19T15:11:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![visions](https://forum.modmore.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/74df32/32.png) [@visions](https://forum.modmore.com/u/visions)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.modmore.com/t/multi-select-order/2559/1 "2024-06-19T15:11:14Z")

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When selecting Items from a Multi-Select Element, they get ordered automatically as they were defined instead of the order they were selected. For instance if the values are: 1,2,3,4,5 and the user selects 3,4,1,2,5 they still get ordered and outputted as 1,2,3,4,5.

Is there a way to change this?

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**Author:** ![digitalpenguin](https://forum.modmore.com/user_avatar/forum.modmore.com/digitalpenguin/32/105_2.png) [@digitalpenguin](https://forum.modmore.com/u/digitalpenguin)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.modmore.com/t/multi-select-order/2559/2 "2024-06-28T04:36:52Z")

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Hi @visions ,

We’ve had a few requests for this. Unfortunately it’s a limitation of the “Select2” library that the multi-select field is currently using.  
Last week I put together a work-around for it, but it is fairly hacky, and I’m not yet confident it’s production-ready. Hopefully it won’t be too much longer before we’ve got a reliable solution for this!