selectTextOnFocus does not work with multiline text inputs iOS

A multiline textinput with selectTextOnFocus={true} selects the text on focus, and then instantly unselects the text.

For an example repro, this code from RNTester will demonstrate the issue:

<TextInput
  placeholder="text is selected on focus"
  defaultValue="text is selected on focus"
  selectTextOnFocus={true}
  multiline={true}
/>

You can find this in the TextInput example page in RNTester on iOS as well.

React Native version: 0.61.4

[kelsyvghn]

Awesome, I’d love to take it.

On May 18, 2020, at 6:41 PM, Eli White [e-mail] wrote:

Hi @kelsyvghn https://github.com/kelsyvghn, yeah, I think this is a good first issue for someone wanting to get familiar with React Native internals. It looks like something is blurring or taking focus from the React Native text input control. This will probably require setting some breakpoints in the Objc code and trying to figure out what is happening.

I think this is where it is selecting all of the text, but I’m not sure what is taking the focus away. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/c8ed2dbbb287deed05a8782fb8665c1edf45bbac/Libraries/Text/TextInput/RCTBaseTextInputView.m#L330-L332 https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/c8ed2dbbb287deed05a8782fb8665c1edf45bbac/Libraries/Text/TextInput/RCTBaseTextInputView.m#L330-L332 — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/27253#issuecomment-630524948, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ANX3PSM3EKXHIJZ55TWPL4DRSHPWFANCNFSM4JO3ERVA.

[TheSavior]

Thanks for the comments all! I’m glad this is resolved, I’ll close it out!