Click and hold to select text using a text component on iOS

[ArsenyYankovsky]

Environment

 React Native Environment Info:
    System:
      OS: macOS 10.14.1
      CPU: x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770HQ CPU @ 2.20GHz
      Memory: 334.21 MB / 16.00 GB
      Shell: 5.3 - /bin/zsh
    Binaries:
      Node: 10.7.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v10.7.0/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.10.1 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
      npm: 6.3.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v10.7.0/bin/npm
      Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
    SDKs:
      iOS SDK:
        Platforms: iOS 12.1, macOS 10.14, tvOS 12.1, watchOS 5.1
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: 3.2 AI-181.5540.7.32.5056338
      Xcode: 10.1/10B61 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
    npmPackages:
      @types/react: ^16.4.1 => 16.7.7 
      @types/react-native: ^0.57.14 => 0.57.14 
      react: 16.5.1 => 16.5.1 
      react-native: ^0.57.7 => 0.57.7 

Description

I want click-and-hold-to-select-text using a Text component and then i searched it and i found selectable property.It good works but it copy the entire text field.I want to selecting a subset of the text field for copying.Actually this question is asked on stackoverflow .Here is question on stackoverflow:http://stackoverflow.com/a/37119619/4596143

Reproduction Steps and Sample Code

I try this code block:

<Text
                        selectable={true}
                        style={styles.messageBody}>
                        {"text description"}
</Text>

This full of text ("text description") can copy not partially .I want to it like screenshot

Actual behaviour:

Expected behavior:

Reproducible Demo

I don't have a reproducible demo but should be pretty easy to create one.

I'm creating this because #13938 was closed but it's still an issue for a lot of people. Would be really nice if bot reopened closed issues if there's an activity on them because there's a lot of them.

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[tacomanator]

Just to note, there are other menu actions like "Speak" and "Define" which appear after selecting text which hopefully can be supported (probably would come out-of-the-box if this issue is addressed).

[fakenickels]

You can use this https://github.com/Astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text/

import { SelectableText } from "react-native-selectable-text";

// Use normally, it is a drop-in replacement for react-native/Text
<SelectableText
  menuItems={["Foo", "Bar"]}
  onSelection={({ eventType, content, selectionStart, selectionEnd }) => {}}
  value="I crave star damage"
/>;

it is for extracting and changing the selection menu but we implemented a way for you to select a subset of it

[stale]

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[stale]

Closing this issue after a prolonged period of inactivity. If this issue is still present in the latest release, please feel free to create a new issue with up-to-date information.