# Form inside a repeat items

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/form-inside-a-repeat-items/16529>\
**Category:** How do I?\
**Created:** [February 15, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/form-inside-a-repeat-items/16529 "2025-02-15T09:24:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![David\_BievreWeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@David\_BievreWeb](https://community.weweb.io/u/David_BievreWeb)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/form-inside-a-repeat-items/16529/1 "2025-02-15T09:24:05Z")

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Hello community,

I don’t now if is it normal or if is it a bug but my form doesn’t work when is it in my repeating item. The vales of my differnets inputs are not detected so i can’t bind it in my submit workflow.

For me it is interseting to have the form inside my repeating item beacose I would like to use binding values inside my initals values of my inputs.

If somebody have a solution for me, i take it !

Thank you

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**Author:** ![dorilama](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/dorilama/32/10403_2.png) [@dorilama](https://community.weweb.io/u/dorilama)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 11:27am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/form-inside-a-repeat-items/16529/2 "2025-02-15T11:27:12Z")

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> [@Select dropdown in collection list](https://community.weweb.io/t/select-dropdown-in-collection-list/5283/2):
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> When inputs are in a repeated element (collection list, columns ecc) you need to keep track of the values (in your case the selected values) using variables and workflows. [This guide](https://community.weweb.io/t/are-form-variables-not-visible-while-the-form-is-in-a-collection-item/1138/6) explains how to do it. [This example](https://community.weweb.io/t/checkboxes-within-a-collection-list/1379/3) is similar, but using checkboxes. You can adapt the sam principle to work with the select or any other input.

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**Author:** ![David\_BievreWeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@David\_BievreWeb](https://community.weweb.io/u/David_BievreWeb)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/form-inside-a-repeat-items/16529/3 "2025-02-15T17:00:37Z")

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Thank you very much dorilam and sorry for the duplicate poste. I had seen the solution befor post but I don’t now why, I missed my event value.  
Thank you again

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**Author:** ![dorilama](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/dorilama/32/10403_2.png) [@dorilama](https://community.weweb.io/u/dorilama)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/form-inside-a-repeat-items/16529/4 "2025-02-15T17:04:50Z")

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it’s ok. we all had the same problem at some point.  
I’m glad the post was helpful 🙂

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**Author:** ![Fishfrom96](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/fishfrom96/32/12169_2.png) [@Fishfrom96](https://community.weweb.io/u/Fishfrom96)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/form-inside-a-repeat-items/16529/5 "2025-02-15T17:41:31Z")

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Just out of curiosity, why does it behave the way it does? Your post was very helpful @dorilama, but I still don’t understand the underlying reason for this behaviour. Could you explain that perhaps?