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# BESelectionTouchPhase

The different phases of touch interaction during text selection operations.

```
enum BESelectionTouchPhase
```

## Overview

The [`BETextInput`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextInput) protocol provides your app an instance of this structure as an argument to the  [`adjustSelectionBoundary(to:touchPhase:baseIsStart:flags:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextInput/adjustSelectionBoundary(to:touchPhase:baseIsStart:flags:)) callback.

## Topics

### Identifying a selection touch phase

[`BESelectionTouchPhase.ended`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BESelectionTouchPhase/ended)

A phase that indicates when the touch interaction for text selection completes without specifying movement direction.

[`BESelectionTouchPhase.endedMovingBackward`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BESelectionTouchPhase/endedMovingBackward)

A phase that indicates when the touch interaction ends after moving in a backward direction.

[`BESelectionTouchPhase.endedMovingForward`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BESelectionTouchPhase/endedMovingForward)

A phase that indicates when the touch interaction ends after moving in a forward direction.

[`BESelectionTouchPhase.endedNotMoving`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BESelectionTouchPhase/endedNotMoving)

A phase that indicates when the touch interaction ends without any movement of the selection boundaries.

[`BESelectionTouchPhase.moved`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BESelectionTouchPhase/moved)

A phase that indicates that a touch actively adjusts the text selection boundaries.

[`BESelectionTouchPhase.started`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BESelectionTouchPhase/started)

A phase that indicates when a new touch interaction for text selection begins.

### Creating a selection touch phase

[`init(rawValue:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BESelectionTouchPhase/init(rawValue:))

Creates a text selection phase with the specified underlying value.


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