Selecting text across the elements

Question

I am working on a UWP app where i will get the text content and their respective X and Y coordinates. I need to render this text in UI in the respective coordinates, I have achieved this through canvas panel and text block but here i face another difficulty which is selecting the entire text from different text block. Since i used multiple TextBlock this doesn't allow me to select the entire text

Can anyone help me to achieve this i need to place the text in respective coordinates and also allow to selection the entire text in native selection

Answer 1

Hello,

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It is by design that you can't select text across multiple TextBlock. When you select text in a TextBlock, actually the TextBlock is focused. Only one element could get focused at one time, so you can't have multiple TextBlock focused. I'd suggest put all the text inside one TextBlock as well.

Thank you.

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