I could type out a super long introduction about how we envision the future of the universe, or I could just tell you that we silently shipped some INCREDIBLE changes to Textboxes.
You can now enjoy the following at your local Textbox:
Text Highlighting
You could drag to select text, but we also realized it’s August and it would be criminal to make you sweat anymore than you already do. With your health in mind, you can also use Ctrl+A/Cmd+A to select all for the ultimate text highlighting experience.
Cut. Copy. Paste.
After 9 years of intense user research () we decided, yes, it was time to allow you to cut, copy, and paste.
And now… a video for your enjoyment (or you could go insert a textbox inside of Studio and try it yourself you silly person)
Of course, the people who did the real work deserve all the credit. I just get paid to write these posts… Huge SHOUT OUT TO @smoothiecriminals and @Tiffblocks for making this work.
You can also do CTRL+Backspace to delete an entire word, which I am a huge fan of. No more constant backspace clicking just to get rid of a word! Thank you for this amazing update!
My question is, what if this is used as a way to give out website links? Scam games could have a user copy and paste a link, which makes it much easier. Is there any way to prevent this?
If a developer used this to send players to links, would this be allowed?
I would like some clarification on what is being done in this case.
Are there plans to allow the developer to see what text a user has highlighted within a text box? Similar to CursorPosition, but a start and end point. This would allow the user to select text and then click a button, like the “bold” button does right here in Discourse. Edit: It exists!
Additionally, what about programmatically invoking a copy similar to the browser API? Imagine we want to allow the user to copy a code, it would be nice to let them just click one button instead of having to present a text box that they manually select and press ctrl-C.
I just tried this on my web browser and it selected all the text on there too; i never knew about this shortcut but it’ll prove useful on roblox and in general now that i know about it .
Is this change only for Desktop or also for iOS and Android? Besides that this is a much needed change, this also allows me to make my own snippet editor inside of Roblox.
On iOS you get a textbox with the keyboard that pops up so you can cut, copy and paste as you would normally on an iOS device, can’t say the same for Android as I’ve never used it.
Saw this being posted by @Maximum_ADHD on twitter.
Now I wonder if you can Hold Shift and use the Arrow Keys to select the text from the current cursor position.
Anything else this is beautiful! I love this!
I don’t really understand what you have in mind on this one… I’m pretty sure that if you felt that a textbox’s fishy, you can easily report the game.
Oh wow. I had noticed some differences between Studio F9 console being select-able and the in game F9 console not. Also when I noticed in game chat being select-able I got really confused. Thanks for this!
INCREDIBLE 
) we decided, yes, it was time to allow you to cut, copy, and paste. 
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