Unwanted Default gray background of the dropdown selections

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Andrée Starå

@Alejandrommm

You're more than welcome!

The best way I've found to make it less visible is to color the background in the same color.

Would that help?

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Andrée Starå

Hi @Alejandrommm

I hope you're well and safe!

Unfortunately, as far as I know, it's not possible now, but it's an excellent idea!

Please submit an Enhancement Request when you have a moment.

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

Alejandrommm

thank you a lot Andrée ✌️, i will do.

Another question then please; Do you know then how i can hide that dropdown selection in the cell? like so it can look like there is nothing there?.

Andrée Starå

@Alejandrommm

You're more than welcome!

The best way I've found to make it less visible is to color the background in the same color.

Would that help?

Alejandrommm

Thank you Andree i have tried that, but it is still great to know that that is the only solution available [:

Andrée Starå

@Alejandrommm

Happy to help!

Shauna Brotz

Hello. Somehow, however I don't know what I did, I was able to remove the gray background on my dropdown items in one of my Smartsheets, so there has to be a way.

As you can see, my dropdown included In Office, Work from Home, Travel, and PTO all having a different color. However, the gray background does NOT show up.

A question I have and hopefully one of you can answer regarding dropdown menus is...in the dropdown column I have chosen the option of multiple names, but as you have stated that we cannot remove the gray background. I am wanting to put a conditional format together that when one or more names are chosen under the column I want only that cell to change color to gray. When there is nothing in the cell, I want the cell color to stay soft yellow. Everything I have tried in the conditional formatting is NOT working...HELP?!?

Genevieve P.

Hi @Shauna Brotz

The grey background behind text appears if you are using a multi-select dropdown list, as it shows the separation between dropdown options. However if you change the column type to be single-select, then the cell text and background colour will be the default colour.

Can you post a screen capture of how you have the conditional formatting rule set up? It sounds like there may be a conflicting rule or a criteria we're missing to get the background colour how you'd like.

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