TextBox.SelectedText Property

Getting this property returns a string copy of the currently selected text. Setting this property replaces the current selection with the specified string.

This example shows one way to use the SelectedText property to retrieve text that the user has selected in a TextBox control.

The following Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) example shows the definition of a TextBox control that contains some text to select, and a Button control with a specified OnClick method.

In this example, a button with an associated Click event handler is used to retrieve the text selection. When the user clicks the button, the OnClick method copies any selected text in the textbox into a string. The particular circumstances by which the text selection is retrieved (clicking a button), as well as the action taken with that selection (copying the text selection to a string), can easily be modified to accommodate a wide variety of scenarios.

<TextBox Name="tbSelectSomeText">
  Some text to select...
</TextBox>

<Button Click="OnClick">Retrieve Selection</Button>

The following C# example shows an OnClick event handler for the button defined in the XAML for this example.

void OnClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    String sSelectedText = tbSelectSomeText.SelectedText;
}

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Server 8 Beta, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

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