How to disable UITextview selection text, copy/paste UIMenuController but still have hyperlinks working [Not duplicate] [duplicate]

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21905725

Question

I want to disable copy/paste menu and i'm using HTML tag in UITextView in which multiple hyperlinks and want to only disable menu.

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Solution

just try to create a subclass of UITextView that overrides the canPerformAction:withSender: method 

- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender
{
    if (action == @selector(paste:))
        return NO;
    return [super canPerformAction:action withSender:sender];
}

OTHER TIPS

You can play with this property:

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and this one :

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You need to create a subclass of UITextView and override the canPerformAction method.

- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender
{
    if (action == @selector(copy:) || action == @selector(selectAll:) || action == @selector(paste:))
        return NO;
    return [super canPerformAction:action withSender:sender];
}
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