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`onSelectionChange` event

See original GitHub issue

The onSelect event does not fire while the user is dragging the mouse, only after they release. It would be nice to have an event that fired immediately whenever the selection changed, including while dragging the mouse. This is useful, for example, when syncing selections between multiple collaborators, ala google docs.

The native selectionchange event is supported cross browser, way back in IE, Chrome, and Safari, and recently in Firefox 43. Is this something React could polyfill and expose to components?

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Created 8 years ago
Reactions:28
Comments:15 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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ianstormtaylorcommented, Apr 1, 2021

Still not stale…

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flarniecommented, Oct 11, 2017

I’d like to look into this because it could affect Draft.js. Will post more when I get time.

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