# Select text manually in TextInput Component

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/select-text-manually-in-textinput-component/163172>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 20, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/select-text-manually-in-textinput-component/163172 "2005-09-20T13:14:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![theflash](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/theflash/32/1221_2.png) [@theflash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/theflash)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/select-text-manually-in-textinput-component/163172/1 "2005-09-20T13:14:25Z")

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I want to select particular text already existing in the text input component. Can I have a selection class used for it ? or I should use something different ?

Can anyone help on this ?

-Thanks