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Text lacks selectable prop

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As of react native v0.39, <Text> elements can be made selectable on iOS. <Cell> should allow for selectable={true} to be set within inner <Text> elements.

http://facebook.github.io/react-native/releases/0.39/docs/text.html#selectable

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  • State:closed
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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Puriicommented, Aug 22, 2017

@drewvolz Have you already looked into chirag04/react-native-tooltip together with the Clipboard-API?

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drewvolzcommented, Sep 8, 2017

That’s a good solution. Thanks, @Purii

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