diff --git a/coral/src/app/features/topics/details/messages/components/TopicMessageFilters.tsx b/coral/src/app/features/topics/details/messages/components/TopicMessageFilters.tsx
index 4bbae7d3c..2fe32c3e3 100644
--- a/coral/src/app/features/topics/details/messages/components/TopicMessageFilters.tsx
+++ b/coral/src/app/features/topics/details/messages/components/TopicMessageFilters.tsx
@@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ function TopicMessageFilters({
         valid={filterErrors.partitionIdFilters === null}
         required
       />
+      <>
+        {
+          //Empty node prevents stale value of custom's 'Number of messages'
+          //being populated into range's 'Start Offset' and vice versa
+        }
+      </>
       <Input
         value={values.rangeOffsetStart || undefined}
         labelText="Start Offset"