# Selecting Combobox item with AS, not mouse?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/selecting-combobox-item-with-as-not-mouse/240265>\
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**Created:** [October 1, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/selecting-combobox-item-with-as-not-mouse/240265 "2007-10-01T13:58:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/selecting-combobox-item-with-as-not-mouse/240265/1 "2007-10-01T13:58:34Z")

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How do I dynamically select an item from my combo box? I have a number of them built off of XML, everything works great, but depending on a users settings the default state from my combo boxes may be different. How do I select an item within the combo box with AS instead of dropping down and selecting with my mouse?

It seems that cb.getItemAt(1).label; only returns the data at that index, it doesn’t “select” that item, move it to the top of the list and activate my cb\_Listener.change function. Any bright ideas? Something like this would be ideal:

cb.selectLabel(“label name one”);

Thanks folks.