# Select elements within ion-view

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/select-elements-within-ion-view/28203>\
**Category:** ionic-v1\
**Created:** [July 13, 2015, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/select-elements-within-ion-view/28203 "2015-07-13T10:07:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dayaki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/dayaki/32/66877_2.png) [@dayaki](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/dayaki)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/select-elements-within-ion-view/28203/1 "2015-07-13T10:07:15Z")

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Please, how do I select an element thats within a ion-view, try using JS querySelector but its not picking it up.

Here is a snippet of my code. I want to select that “select” element.

```
<ion-tab title="Airtime Recharge" icon-on="ion-ios-keypad" icon-off="ion-ios-keypad-outline">
<ion-view view-title="" hide-back-button="true" hide-nav-bar="true">
<ion-content>
  <div class="sub_header">
    <i class="ion ion-android-menu" ng-click="toggleLeft()"></i>
    <i class="ion ion-log-out right-icon" ng-click="logOut()"></i>
    <h3>Ace Recharge</h3>
    <p>Quickly recharge your mobile phone.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="form-wrapper" style="background:#00b6ad">
    <section>
    <select class="cs-select cs-skin-elastic">
      <option value="" disabled selected>Select a Country</option>
      <option value="france" data-class="flag-france">France</option>
      <option value="brazil" data-class="flag-brazil">Brazil</option>
      <option value="argentina" data-class="flag-argentina">Argentina</option>
      <option value="south-africa" data-class="flag-safrica">South Africa</option>
    </select>
  </section>
```

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**Author:** ![bokboki2002](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/bokboki2002/32/12515_2.png) [@bokboki2002](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/bokboki2002)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/select-elements-within-ion-view/28203/2 "2015-07-13T19:33:47Z")

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Hi,

Here is one way you can do this:

```
var currentView = document.querySelector('ion-view[nav-view="active"]');
var selectEl = currentView.querySelector("select");

```

Have you tried this?