microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows
Text selection outstanding tasks
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Since Dec 16, 2025.
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Description
- shift + click -> should expand selection
- notify JS about selectionChange by emitting an event from native for the same
- Add tolerance to GetTextPositionAtPoint() as select text starting from the edge of the first or last character, we have to click very precisely
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