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Select whole text of UITextView using Swift

I tried to do this the same way as I'm doing it with a UITextField:

textView.selectedTextRange = textView.textRange(from: textView.beginningOfDocument, to: textView.endOfDocument)

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

  • You should make the text field the first responder before selecting it:

    textView.becomeFirstResponder()
textView.selectedTextRange = textView.textRange(from: textView.beginningOfDocument, to: textView.endOfDocument)

    ...or, better yet, just call selectAll:

    textView.selectAll(self)