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RichTextBox.SelectionType Property

Gets the selection type within the control.

Namespace:  System.Windows.Forms
Assembly:  System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
[BrowsableAttribute(false)]
public RichTextBoxSelectionTypes SelectionType { get; }

Property Value

Type: System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBoxSelectionTypes
A bitwise combination of the RichTextBoxSelectionTypes values.

You can use this property to determine the type of data that is currently selected in the control in order to handle the selection properly when performing tasks within the control on the current selection. The property can represent any combination of values from the RichTextBoxSelectionTypes enumeration representing the many types of objects in the current selection.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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