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# BEResponderEditActions

A set of methods that defines extended interactions in browser text views.

```
protocol BEResponderEditActions : UIResponderStandardEditActions
```

## Overview

Implement the methods in this protocol to support text interactions in your browser text view that conforms to [`BETextInput`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextInput).
To get the system’s standard behavior for an interaction, call [`BETextInteraction`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextInteraction) methods in your implementation.
For more information, see [Supporting extended text interactions](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/support-extended-text-interactions).

## Topics

### Finding and replacing text

[`findSelected(_:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEResponderEditActions/findSelected(_:))

Begins a search for the selected content in your browser text view.

[`promptForReplace(_:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEResponderEditActions/promptForReplace(_:))

Shows potential replacements for the selected content.

[`replace(_:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEResponderEditActions/replace(_:))

Removes the selected text and inputs the chosen replacement text.

[`addShortcut(_:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEResponderEditActions/addShortcut(_:))

Adds a text-replacement shortcut to the edit dictionary.

### Defining and sharing text

[`lookup(_:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEResponderEditActions/lookup(_:))

Presents a dictionary definition for the selected content.

[`share(_:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEResponderEditActions/share(_:))

Presents UI for sharing the selected text.

### Translating and transliterating text

[`translate(_:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEResponderEditActions/translate(_:))

Presents a translation of the selected text.

[`transliterateChinese(_:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BEResponderEditActions/transliterateChinese(_:))

Converts the selected text between traditional and simplified Chinese.


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