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Support selecting text within <Text> elements (for copy&paste, etc)

Mike Lambert

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>

May 9, 2016

Lev Eliezer Israel

This one really hurts. I'm responsible for a text-focused app, and this issue alone might push us off of React Native.

Bardiamist

multiline disabled TextInput allow to change selection but somebody think this is bug https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/27296

ömer faruk kaya

Is there any update to selectable text?

Brandon OVA

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.

Juned Ahmed Chowdhury

Waiting for updates!!!!

Sukhraj

Still waiting on this over three years later...

hash singularity

This functionality is a real need. I wonder why this has not been implemented yet.

Mikael Sand

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}
/>);

John

More than 2 years guys. Nice.

Jonas Frid

Any update?

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