MD Taseen Khan

Posted on May 15, 2024 • Originally published at reactjsexample.com on Mar 6, 2024

A UITextView implementation for React Native that allows for full text highlighting/selection

#reactnative #highlighting

React Native UITextView

The Text implementation in React Native uses UILabel on iOS. Unfortunately, this prevents the user from being able to highlight text for selection. The only copy behavior that is possible is to copy the entire block of text.

UITextView however allows a user to highlight portions of the text block for copying, translation, or other native capabilities.

React Native UITextView takes advantage of UITextView to allow for both types of copying on iOS: highlight and copy or the current, UILabel behavior to just copy the entire block of text.

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License

MIT

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