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# BETextAlternatives

An object that provides alternative text suggestions for a person’s text selection.

```
class BETextAlternatives
```

## Overview

The [`BETextInput`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextInput) protocol provides your app an instance of this class as an argument to the  [`alternativesForSelectedText()`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextInput/alternativesForSelectedText()) callback.

## Topics

### Considering alternative text

[`alternativeStrings`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextAlternatives/alternativeStrings)

An array of strings that represent alternatives to the currently selected text.

### Reviewing the source text

[`primaryString`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextAlternatives/primaryString)

The original text that the alternatives derive from.


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