# Tags from parent not displaying in dropdown
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [06.Август.2018 21:23:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050 "2018-08-06T21:23:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [06.Август.2018 21:23:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/1 "2018-08-06T21:23:57Z")
I have a tag group that is not displaying the tags when the parent tag is present (third-party-lens)
I should be seeing these tags:
I have this working with other tag groups that go one level deeper than this, but for some reason, these refuse to display, any ideas?
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [06.Август.2018 21:35:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/3 "2018-08-06T21:35:29Z")
I will dig if related to dropdown component or not.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2018 07:37:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/4 "2018-10-02T07:37:04Z")
Can you still reproduce this? I tried and can’t.
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2018 18:54:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/5 "2018-10-02T18:54:35Z")
Yes it’s still happening, can you try going another level deep? This is four levels deep (for sale \> lens \> third party lens \> fourth level that is not showing)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2018 20:01:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/6 "2018-10-02T20:01:57Z")
There is no concept of “four levels deep” in discourse. There is only category, subcategory, and then tags on either of those.
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2018 21:18:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/7 "2018-10-02T21:18:21Z")
I’m not talking about categories, but tags. I have four levels deep of parent/child tags.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2018 21:55:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/8 "2018-10-02T21:55:16Z")
LOL, well, there’s your problem. Why would you do that?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2018 21:59:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/9 "2018-10-02T21:59:07Z")
You’re adding Tag 1, Tag 2 (requires Tag 1), and Tag 3 (requires Tag 2), and are expecting Tag 4 (requires Tag 3) to appear?
I wonder if it’s possible we can restrict this from happening (checking if a tag has a parent before allowing it to be a parent?), because I suspect this isn’t infinitely scalable… Tags were designed with only one parent level in mind.
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2018 22:04:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/10 "2018-10-02T22:04:58Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> LOL, well, there’s your problem. Why would you do that?
Because it works very well for a classified category…
Select tag ‘for-sale’ (other options are ‘wanted’, ‘trade’) \> which gives you more options to select what you’re selling, in our case camera body, camera lens, tripod, etc. \> from there let’s say you select camera lens, then you have the option to select the lens brand, if it’s say a Nikon lens then that’s where it ends, but you can also select ‘third party lens’ which has tags that apply to multiple lens brands like sigma, tokina, etc.
> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> You’re adding Tag 1, Tag 2 (requires Tag 1), and Tag 3 (requires Tag 2), and are expecting Tag 4 (requires Tag 3) to appear?
Correct. I suppose I can work around this, but yes if it doesn’t work beyond three levels then there should be a way to not allow this to happen.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2018 22:22:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/11 "2018-10-02T22:22:25Z")
I’m not sure tag hierarchy is intended to work beyond two levels. Can you confirm @neil?
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2018 22:29:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/12 "2018-10-02T22:29:17Z")
Sorry, my first tag is not a parent, so yes it seems to be limited to two levels. Some way of preventing more than two levels would be great for new users, now I have to redo a ton of tags in a new way because I had no way of knowing and was excited about the possibility of these levels of granularity. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [03.Октябрь.2018 14:24:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/13 "2018-10-03T14:24:36Z")
Correct, this was not intended to be used as an arbitrarily deep hierarchy. Interesting that you got it to work for 3 levels, but I don’t recommend it.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [07.Ноябрь.2018 17:00:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tags-from-parent-not-displaying-in-dropdown/94050/14 "2018-11-07T17:00:21Z")
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