---
title: isSelectable
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nstextview/isselectable
---

# isSelectable

A Boolean value that controls whether the text views sharing the receiver’s layout manager allow the user to select text.

## Declaration

```swift
var isSelectable: Bool { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion true to allow the user to select text of all text views sharing the receiver’s layout manager; otherwise, false. If a text view is made not selectable, it’s also made not editable, and buttons on the Find panel are dimmed. Text views are by default both editable and selectable note: Non-selectable text views do not process any mouse events. If for some reason it is necessary to disallow user selection changes in a text view that must handle mouse events, you can make the text view selectable but implement the delegate method textView(_:willChangeSelectionFromCharacterRanges:toCharacterRanges:) to disallow selection changes.

## See Also

### Setting behavioral attributes

- [allowsUndo](appkit/nstextview/allowsundo.md)
- [isEditable](appkit/nstextview/iseditable.md)
- [isFieldEditor](appkit/nstextview/isfieldeditor.md)
- [isRichText](appkit/nstextview/isrichtext.md)
- [importsGraphics](appkit/nstextview/importsgraphics.md)
- [setBaseWritingDirection(_:range:)](appkit/nstextview/setbasewritingdirection(_:range:).md)
- [defaultParagraphStyle](appkit/nstextview/defaultparagraphstyle.md)
- [outline(_:)](appkit/nstextview/outline(_:).md)
- [allowsImageEditing](appkit/nstextview/allowsimageediting.md)
- [isAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled](appkit/nstextview/isautomaticquotesubstitutionenabled.md)
- [toggleAutomaticQuoteSubstitution(_:)](appkit/nstextview/toggleautomaticquotesubstitution(_:).md)
- [isAutomaticLinkDetectionEnabled](appkit/nstextview/isautomaticlinkdetectionenabled.md)
- [toggleAutomaticLinkDetection(_:)](appkit/nstextview/toggleautomaticlinkdetection(_:).md)
- [displaysLinkToolTips](appkit/nstextview/displayslinktooltips.md)
- [isAutomaticTextCompletionEnabled](appkit/nstextview/isautomatictextcompletionenabled.md)