diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 0c045d13..35f796f6 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "cyberchef",
-  "version": "8.31.3",
+  "version": "8.31.4",
   "lockfileVersion": 1,
   "requires": true,
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4ae59d3c..6fce93c9 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "cyberchef",
-  "version": "8.31.3",
+  "version": "8.31.4",
   "description": "The Cyber Swiss Army Knife for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis.",
   "author": "n1474335 <n1474335@gmail.com>",
   "homepage": "https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef",
diff --git a/src/web/HTMLIngredient.mjs b/src/web/HTMLIngredient.mjs
index d8ac9511..c996c51d 100755
--- a/src/web/HTMLIngredient.mjs
+++ b/src/web/HTMLIngredient.mjs
@@ -293,7 +293,9 @@ class HTMLIngredient {
         const op = el.parentNode.parentNode;
         const target = op.querySelectorAll(".arg")[this.target];
 
-        target.value = el.childNodes[el.selectedIndex].getAttribute("populate-value");
+        const popVal = el.childNodes[el.selectedIndex].getAttribute("populate-value");
+        if (popVal !== "") target.value = popVal;
+
         const evt = new Event("change");
         target.dispatchEvent(evt);