# Perspective Table select all text in cell on start edit

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-select-all-text-in-cell-on-start-edit/64934>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [October 7, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-select-all-text-in-cell-on-start-edit/64934 "2022-10-07T08:11:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Murphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Chris\_Murphy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Chris_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-select-all-text-in-cell-on-start-edit/64934/1 "2022-10-07T08:11:50Z")

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Hi, I have a perspective table that I have set to allow edit on single click, when the edit starts, the cursor is always at the very start of the existing text in the cell. I would like to be able to have the entire existing text selected when the edit starts, so the users input will overwrite the existing text.  
Any ideas?  
I know how I'd do it with javascript or react, but that appears to be off the table (pun intended 🙂), perhaps a feature request for the table component?

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**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-select-all-text-in-cell-on-start-edit/64934/2 "2022-10-07T09:28:06Z")

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> [@Chris\_Murphy](#):
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> I know how I'd do it with javascript or react

You can create your own modules, not so easy though.  
Here is an example

> <https://github.com/inductiveautomation/ignition-sdk-examples/tree/06bfb57b725636f63b05d3f9a20782f6c2163225/perspective-component>
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> //github.com/inductiveautomation/ignition-sdk-examples/tree/06bfb57b725636f63b05d3f9a20782f6c2163225/perspective-component

Other than that no idea if its possible in perspective already