Grab SELECTED text on UITextView

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By : user3864984

Date : January 10 2021, 01:49 PM

hope this fix your issue How do I grab the SELECTED or HIGHLIGHTED text on a UITextView? I already know how to do this on UIWebView using JavaScript. Now I am trying to figure it out for the UITextView. , you can do it by

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How can I get the selected text frame from a UITextView

By : Anthony Williams

Date : March 29 2020, 07:55 AM

I think the issue was by ths following , I think [UITextInput selectedTextRange] and [UITextInput caretRectForPosition:] is what you are looking for.
[UITextInput selectedTextRange] returns the selected range in character

code :

UITextRange * selectionRange = [textView selectedTextRange];
CGRect selectionStartRect = [textView caretRectForPosition:selectionRange.start];
CGRect selectionEndRect = [textView caretRectForPosition:selectionRange.end];
CGPoint selectionCenterPoint = (CGPoint){(selectionStartRect.origin.x + selectionEndRect.origin.x)/2,(selectionStartRect.origin.y + selectionStartRect.size.height / 2)};

How to print out selected text in UITextview?

By : Jama

Date : March 29 2020, 07:55 AM

this will help

code :

NSString *selectedText = [textView.text substringWithRange:[textView selectedRange]];
NSLog (@"This is selected text in UITextView %@", selectedText);

UIMenuController and UITextView selected text

By : user2428064

Date : March 29 2020, 07:55 AM

Does that help hmm you need two corrections. The first is:
you have to implement the UIResponder method like this in your custom UITextView class.

code :

- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender {

    if (action == @selector(doSomethingHere:) || action == @selector(copy:)) {

        if (self.selectedRange.length > 0) {

            return YES;
        }
    }
    return NO;
}

if (action == @selector(doSomethingHere:) || action == @selector(copy:))

if (action == @selector(doSomethingHere:))

- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender {

    return YES;
}

UIMenuItem *menuItem;
menuItem = [[UIMenuItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Add note" action:@selector(doSomethingHere:)];
[items addObject:menuItem];

[[UIMenuController sharedMenuController] setMenuItems:@[menuItem]];

UITextview selected text

By : user3088378

Date : March 29 2020, 07:55 AM

it helps some times Did you try setting textView.selectedTextRange = nil?
Edit: Depending on your requirements, could you set this in viewWillDisappear or viewWillAppear so it is deselected when you either leave or come back to your view controller?

Get selected text in a UITextView

By : Amanda Paiola

Date : March 29 2020, 07:55 AM

Does that help What is happening is that UITextView method textInRange have been renamed to text(in: Range) since Swift 3. Btw you forgot to add the let keyword in your sentence:

code :

if let range = textView.selectedTextRange {
    UIPasteboard.general.string = textView.text(in: range)
}