Configuring Selection (xamRichTextEditor)

Topic Overview

Purpose

This topic explains how to turn on the xamRichTextEditor ™ control’s multiple selection functionality.

Required background

The following topics are prerequisites to understanding this topic:

Topic	Purpose
Features Overview	This topic provides an overview of the features supported by the xamRichTextEditor control.
Content Structure	This topic explains the document’s content logical structure you can use to edit the contents in the xamRichTextEditor programmatically.
Adding xamRichTextEditor to Your Page	This topic provides detailed instructions to help you get up and running as quickly as possible with the xamRichTextEditor .

In this topic

This topic contains the following sections:

Selection Configuration Summary
Multiple Selection
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Selection Configuration Summary

Selection configuration summary chart

The following table briefly explains the configurable aspects of the xamRichTextEditor control and maps them to their specific properties.

Configurable aspect	Details	Properties
Multiple Selection	Enable or disable multiple selection.	IsMultiSelectEnabled

Multiple Selection

Overview

The following procedure enables the xamRichTextEditor control’s multiple selection feature, disabled by default. This feature allows you or the user to select multiple chunks of the document’s content called ranges.

Property settings

The following table maps the desired configuration to its specific property settings.

In order to:	Use this property:	And set it to:
Enable multiple selection	`IsMultiSelectEnabled`	true

Example

The following code snippets shows how to allow multiple selection in XAML and C#:

In XAML:

<ig:XamRichTextEditor
    x:Name="xamRichTextEditor1"
    IsMultiSelectEnabled="True">
</ig:XamRichTextEditor>

In C#:

this.xamRichTextEditor1.IsMultiSelectEnabled = true;

In Visual Basic:

Me.xamRichTextEditor1.IsMultiSelectEnabled = True

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