# Nodes id on a 2D mesh

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/nodes-id-on-a-2d-mesh/7002
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [April 19, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/nodes-id-on-a-2d-mesh/7002 "2021-04-19T17:03:33Z")
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### Author: ![Hrishikesh\_Das](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/hrishikesh_das/32/6462_2.png) [@Hrishikesh\_Das](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Hrishikesh_Das)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/nodes-id-on-a-2d-mesh/7002/1 "2021-04-19T17:03:33Z")

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Hello friends this is my first post. I am trying to view the nodes and elements numbers of a 2d mesh. Earlier I was successful in doing that. see picture below, but now when I am trying to do it I am unable to do so, Maybe I am missing some settings. Could you please help.

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bf38ed9ad2d41c375ea6a0117b9da958d53889f4.png) ![Capture2](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/1/135194afc8203b233dcd66791108b570b6f5318a.png)

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### Author: ![Joachim\_P](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/joachim_p/32/9596_2.png) [@Joachim\_P](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Joachim_P)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/nodes-id-on-a-2d-mesh/7002/2 "2021-04-21T03:27:04Z")

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Hi,

You need to select the point label id in the `Selection Display Inspector` (menu `View`).

Example:

 ![selectiondispinspector](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a562f7c1825819645ce527449581cb2e9e63d04c.png)

Hope this helps,  
Joachim