In android we can get the starting and ending index of selected text in an EditText using this :
int a = inputET.getSelectionStart();
int b = inputET.getSelectionEnd();
What is the flutter alternative for this in a TextField ?
Flutter TextField get Selected Text
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It can be a bit more straightforward than Fayaz's answer: with a TextField(controller: _textEditingController) one can access the selected text like this:
_textEditingController.selection.textInside(_textEditingController.text)
Lets say we have this widget in widget tree
TextField(controller: _textEditingController),
on some button press, consider to print the selected text
printSelectedText(){
print(_textEditingController.text.substring(_textEditingController.selection.baseOffset,_textEditingController.selection.extentOffset));
}
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