On Android, there is TextView's textIsSelectable. On iOS, there is UITextView's selectable. These allow one to click-and-hold to select text in a non-editable text view. It would be nice to expose this feature through React-Native's <Text>
Waiting for updates!!!!
Still waiting on this over three years later...
This functionality is a real need. I wonder why this has not been implemented yet.
I've published a workaround for now if you're interested: https://github.com/msand/react-native-selectable-text
import SelectableText from 'react-native-selectable-text';
export default ({ text, onSelectionChange }) => (
<SelectableText
selectable
multiline
contextMenuHidden
scrollEnabled={false}
editable={false}
onSelectionChange={(event) => {
const {
nativeEvent: {
selection: { start, end },
},
} = event
const str = text.substring(start, end)
onSelectionChange({ str, start, end })
}}
style={{
color: "#BAB6C8",
}}
value={text}
/>);
More than 2 years guys. Nice.
Any update?
Any updates?
any update?
I think what we really want it the Text on ios to inherit from UITextView, not UIView
Using TextInput seems like a hacky workaround to me.
On another note, the docs state using the selectable-property on <Text> does the following: "Lets the user select text, to use the native copy and paste functionality.", which is clearly not the case on ios.