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title: Supporting extended text interactions
framework: browserenginekit
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role_heading: Article
path: browserenginekit/support-extended-text-interactions
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# Supporting extended text interactions

Share content, add replacement shortcuts, and perform other rich actions in browser text views.

## Overview

Overview When your browser’s text view conforms to the BETextInput protocol, it automatically also conforms to BEResponderEditActions. This protocol adds a collection of optional action methods your text view can implement to support extended text interactions. To get the system’s standard behavior for an interaction, add a BETextInteraction to your custom view’s textInputView, and call the interaction’s methods in response to BEResponderEditActions. Additionally, implement canPerformAction(_:withSender:), to return true in situations where the interaction is available, but false otherwise. For example, to share the selected text using the standard share sheet: class MyBrowserTextView: UIView, BETextInput, BEResponderEditActions {   func canPerformAction(_ action: Selector, withSender sender: Any?) -> Bool { 	if (action == #selector(share(_:))) { 	  return self.canShareSelection 	}   }      func share(_ sender: Any?) {     self.textInteraction.shareText(self.selectedText, from:self.selectionRect)   } }

## See Also

### Custom text views

- [Integrating custom browser text views with UIKit](browserenginekit/integrating-custom-browser-text-views-with-uikit.md)
- [BETextInput](browserenginekit/betextinput.md)
- [BETextInputDelegate](browserenginekit/betextinputdelegate.md)