# Category selection broken for "Reply as new topic"
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selection-broken-for-reply-as-new-topic/108976
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [February 12, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selection-broken-for-reply-as-new-topic/108976 "2019-02-12T19:47:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selection-broken-for-reply-as-new-topic/108976/1 "2019-02-12T19:47:27Z")
To reproduce:
1. Select a bit of text and Quote:
2. Choose to Reply as linked topic
3. Change the category from the original one (note that without searching, only the current category is listed):
4. To something new:
5. The category now shows as `uncategorized` but in actuality the category (`bug` in this case) is actually selected and will be used on the new topic:
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selection-broken-for-reply-as-new-topic/108976/3 "2019-02-13T11:37:17Z")
Will be fixed by
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7002](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7002)
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selection-broken-for-reply-as-new-topic/108976/4 "2019-02-14T17:00:09Z")
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