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# BETextDocumentRequest

A description of the contextual information that a text document request retrieves.

```
class BETextDocumentRequest
```

## Overview

The [`BETextInput`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextInput) protocol’s [`requestDocumentContext(_:completionHandler:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextInput/requestDocumentContext(_:completionHandler:)) and [`selectPosition(at:for:completionHandler:)`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextInput/selectPosition(at:for:completionHandler:)) methods take an instance of this class as an argument.

## Topics

### Scoping the document request

[`surroundingGranularity`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextDocumentRequest/surroundingGranularity)

The unit of measurement for the document request’s scope.

[`granularityCount`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextDocumentRequest/granularityCount)

A count of granularity units that defines the scope of the document request.

### Specifying the requested information

[`options`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextDocumentRequest/options-swift.property)

A set of options that describes the contextual information the system requests from the document.

[`BETextDocumentRequest.Options`](/documentation/BrowserEngineKit/BETextDocumentRequest/Options-swift.struct)

Options that describe the contextual information for a text document request.


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