# Pre-Selected option

**URL:** https://forum.surveyengine.com/t/pre-selected-option/441
**Category:** Experiments
**Created:** [10 June 2026 19:59 UTC](https://forum.surveyengine.com/t/pre-selected-option/441 "2026-06-10T19:59:25Z")
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### Author: ![Rushdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@Rushdi](https://forum.surveyengine.com/u/Rushdi)
#### Post date: [10 June 2026 19:59 UTC](https://forum.surveyengine.com/t/pre-selected-option/441/1 "2026-06-10T19:59:26Z")

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Dear Benno,

I have an experiment with 3 alternatives/options where I want one of the options to be pre-selected before the participant/respondent chooses it, kinda like a default nudge  
Is this possible in SurveyEngine? I tried alot but cant get it to work

Best,

Rushdi

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### Author: ![benno](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.surveyengine.com/benno/32/3_2.png) [@benno](https://forum.surveyengine.com/u/benno)
#### Post date: [22 June 2026 09:37 UTC](https://forum.surveyengine.com/t/pre-selected-option/441/2 "2026-06-22T09:37:06Z")

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This is pretty non-standard and it´s likely you´´ll get bad data.  
Nevertheless there are 2 ways of doing this

1. USe the html template and set the relevant radio but to checked \<
2. Do the same but use javascript.

You´ll need to dig into the html using find the relevent elements - but chat gpt should be able to help-