[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # How to Foce Selection of Characteristics ## - **[philtrevelyan](/forum/user/20895-philtrevelyan "View philtrevelyan's Profile")** - [![philtrevelyan's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/20895-philtrevelyan "View philtrevelyan's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/20895-philtrevelyan) Less More - Posts: 6 - Thank you received: 0 - - 13 years 4 months ago [\#111738](#111738) by [philtrevelyan](/forum/user/20895-philtrevelyan "View philtrevelyan's Profile") *[How to Foce Selection of Characteristics](/forum/4-how-to/84433-how-to-foce-selection-of-characteristics#111738 "Hi, Can someone please tell me how to force characteristics within a product, for example wthin the drop down menu to display: Please select option 1 option 2 option 3 I have looked everywhere and can not find out how to enable this. Any help would be greatly received. Thank Phil")* was created by *[philtrevelyan](/forum/user/20895-philtrevelyan "View philtrevelyan's Profile")* Hi, Can someone please tell me how to force characteristics within a product, for example wthin the drop down menu to display: Please select option 1 option 2 option 3 I have looked everywhere and can not find out how to enable this. Any help would be greatly received. Thank Phil Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzg0NDMzLWhvdy10by1mb2NlLXNlbGVjdGlvbi1vZi1jaGFyYWN0ZXJpc3RpY3M/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86320 - Thank you received: 14277 - - 13 years 4 months ago [\#111740](#111740) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[How to Foce Selection of Characteristics](/forum/4-how-to/84433-how-to-foce-selection-of-characteristics#111740 "Hi, Can someone please tell me how to force characteristics within a product, for example wthin the drop down menu to display: Please select option 1 option 2 option 3 I have looked everywhere and can not find out how to enable this. Any help would be greatly received. Thank Phil")* Hi, You can create a characteristic with 4 values, the first one being the "please select". Then, after you add the characteristic to the product, select the "please select" value as the default value of the characteristic and then, click on the "manage variants" button and edit the variant for the "please select" value and set a quantity of 0. That way the default one will be "please select" and it won't display the add to cart button until the user select something else in the characteristic dropdown. The following user(s) said Thank You: [philtrevelyan](/forum/user/20895-philtrevelyan "View philtrevelyan's Profile") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzg0NDMzLWhvdy10by1mb2NlLXNlbGVjdGlvbi1vZi1jaGFyYWN0ZXJpc3RpY3M/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[philtrevelyan](/forum/user/20895-philtrevelyan "View philtrevelyan's Profile")** - [![philtrevelyan's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/20895-philtrevelyan "View philtrevelyan's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/20895-philtrevelyan) Less More - Posts: 6 - Thank you received: 0 - - 13 years 4 months ago [\#111749](#111749) by [philtrevelyan](/forum/user/20895-philtrevelyan "View philtrevelyan's Profile") Replied by *[philtrevelyan](/forum/user/20895-philtrevelyan "View philtrevelyan's Profile")* on topic *[How to Foce Selection of Characteristics](/forum/4-how-to/84433-how-to-foce-selection-of-characteristics#111749 "Hi, Can someone please tell me how to force characteristics within a product, for example wthin the drop down menu to display: Please select option 1 option 2 option 3 I have looked everywhere and can not find out how to enable this. Any help would be greatly received. Thank Phil")* Works Perfectly, Thank you ![:)](/media/kunena/emoticons/3.png ":)") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzg0NDMzLWhvdy10by1mb2NlLXNlbGVjdGlvbi1vZi1jaGFyYWN0ZXJpc3RpY3M/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. Board Categories HikaShop Install & Update Product & Category Display Content Creation Sales and Orders Orders management Reports & Statistics Customers Checkout Payment Methods Shipping Methods Import & Export (CSV, XLS…) Specific Features Affilation Taxes Wishlist Vote Carousel & Slider Mass Actions Filters & Search Discount & Coupon Feature Request Integrations Showcase General Talk about HikaShop Development HikaShop 3.0 Beta Translation Commercial Jobs HikaShop Components HikaMarket Market: Feature requests Market: How to? 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