# Category selection drop-down out of order
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selection-drop-down-out-of-order/17351
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [7월 8, 2014, 9:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selection-drop-down-out-of-order/17351 "2014-07-08T21:28:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [7월 8, 2014, 9:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selection-drop-down-out-of-order/17351/1 "2014-07-08T21:28:06Z")
When creating a new topic (or editing a topic title) shouldn’t the order of categories drop-down field match the order in `/categories`? And shouldn’t sub-categories be listed under their parent?
If so, this isn’t working. The categories in the drop-down next to title seem to appear in some type of random order. Subcategories are also in “random” order as well, so it’s not clear that they’re related to a parent.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7월 8, 2014, 9:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selection-drop-down-out-of-order/17351/2 "2014-07-08T21:30:45Z")
It depends, there are different places – have you set an explicit order, or not?
We only respect explicit orders on the /categories page at the moment. The idea is that when users are creating topics, they need to see the categories in order of what is actually _popular_ and populated with topics, so they know which categories are the most likely fit.
We haven’t fully normalized a lot of the places where categories appear yet, simply because it’s a somewhat rare complaint.
There are at least 4-5 topics on this already, so I’m going to close this one.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7월 8, 2014, 9:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-selection-drop-down-out-of-order/17351/3 "2014-07-08T21:31:13Z")