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UITextRange

A range of characters in a text container with a starting index and an ending index in string backing a text-entry object.

Declaration

@MainActor class UITextRange

Overview

Classes that adopt the UITextInput protocol must create custom UITextRange objects for representing ranges within the text managed by the class. The starting and ending indexes of the range are represented by UITextPosition objects. The text system uses both UITextRange and UITextPosition objects for communicating text-layout information. There are two reasons for using objects for text ranges rather than primitive types such as NSRange:

  • Some documents contain nested elements (for example, HTML tags and embedded objects) and you need to track both absolute position and position in the visible text.

  • The WebKit framework requires that text indexes and offsets be represented by objects.

If you adopt the UITextInput protocol, you must create a custom UITextRange subclass as well as a custom UITextPosition subclass.

Topics

Defining Ranges of Text

See Also

Metrics