# Text keeps highlighting & deleting as I type

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-keeps-highlighting-deleting-as-i-type/66828
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [October 7, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-keeps-highlighting-deleting-as-i-type/66828 "2023-10-07T17:56:10Z")
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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-keeps-highlighting-deleting-as-i-type/66828/2 "2023-10-07T18:55:53Z")

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> [@Data Editor "select all" issue](https://community.glideapps.com/t/data-editor-select-all-issue/66769):
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> When entering data in the data editor, I have been clicking the “add row” And then as I type, the first set of characters comes up missing. I’ve isolated it that as I type it will select everything in the box and then when I type the next character, of course the first letters entered come up missing. This is in a new App and a new Table that I am populating with types of data (days of the week, other lists). [image]

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