# Selection

A field of type Selection gives you either a dropdown-style or a table-style way of selecting one or more predefined values.

{% hint style="info" %}
You can mark values to be suggested when editing a product, a page, etc. that doesn’t have a value for that field already. If you would like a default value of "Blue" to be suggested by default in a selection of "Red, Green, Blue", just prefix the option with a colon: ":Blue" in the field definition
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="info" %}
You can opt to have selections use another value than the one presented in the ACF editor by separating the value and the presentation string with double colons - "value::string". 

To have e.g. a color code stored for a selection of a named color, enter "#0000ff::Blue". This will show the option as "Blue" in the ACF editor dropdown but actually store the value "#0000ff" in the Metafield
{% endhint %}

The selection is represented as a Metafield with its string value matching the selected value:

```html
<p>You have selected the value: {{ product.metafields.accentuate.selection }}</p>
```

Or, in case of multiple selected values, with each value listed using the "pipe" symbol ("|") as a separator token. \
\
You can use Liquid's 'split' filter on the Metafield to separate the values - like this:

```liquid
{% assign selected_values = product.metafields.accentuate.selection | split: '|' %}

{% for selected_value in selected_values %} 
  <p>{{ selected_value }}</p> 
{% endfor %}
```


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