I am using a datagrid which has many combobox fields in it, when I click the datagrid combobox the selected item or highlighted value is the last item in the list, but I would like it to highlight the first(top) item in the list. I know for just a combobox, all I need to do is change the combobox.selecteditem or combobox.selectedindex, but I'm not sure what to do in this case. I have binded the combobox to a table in the database and used a datatable to store the combobox values and then I add a row to the datatable, I think the reason the last item in the combobox is highlighted is because I added a row to the datatable. Thank you for your help. String strGetTypes = "SELECT holidaycodeVARCHAR4Pk, codedescVARCHAR45 FROM holidaytype ORDER BY holidaycodeVARCHAR4Pk Desc"; DataTable dtHolidayType = new DataTable(); MySqlDataAdapter dbaElements = new MySqlDataAdapter(strGetTypes, ShareSqlSettings.dbConnect); dbaElements.Fill(dtHolidayType); DataGridViewComboBoxCell cboxDays = new DataGridViewComboBoxCell(); cboxDays.DataSource = dtHolidayType; cboxDays.DisplayMember = "codedescVARCHAR45"; cboxDays.ValueMember = "holidaycodeVARCHAR4Pk"; //Blank row dtHolidayType.Rows.Add(1); // gridDailyEmp.Rows[j].Cells[day] = cboxDays;