How to get the selected text from text area in react?

Question

I am trying to make a text editor in react.Does anyone knows how to get the selected text from the textarea so that styles can be applied on the selected text.I know we can

Answer 1

The best way to make a Text Editor in React is to use DraftJS.

If you are using React, DraftJS is the way to go about it. It abstracts away many of the challenges you would face while trying to create your own text editor from scratch. This includes managing the state of your editor (similarly to how you would manage a component's state), managing text selection, applying different attributes and so on.

You can get started by checking out the docs, and I would suggest watching the introduction video on that page, which goes through the difficulties DraftJS aims to solve.

I hope that helps.