# Selecting with drag isn't editable
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selecting-with-drag-isnt-editable/53019
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 30, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selecting-with-drag-isnt-editable/53019 "2021-04-30T16:52:01Z")
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### Author:  [@R.J](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/R.J)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selecting-with-drag-isnt-editable/53019/1 "2021-04-30T16:52:01Z")
When you want to select text in a text box that includes the starting character, if you drag from right to left, if you drag past the beginning, the selection can't be deleted with the keyboard
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selecting-with-drag-isnt-editable/53019/2 "2021-04-30T17:34:51Z")
I am not sure that I understand what you do.
I selected a field in the tag panel (in which the whole text got selected when I clicked into it).
So I clicked in the white area of the text box so that the blue selection disappeared.
Now I press the left mouse button and drag the cursor from right to left across the field and even further. Result: the text is selected.
With such a selection I undertook several actions:
I pressed delete and the selected text was deleted (as expected).
I pressed the cursor-right button and the selection vanishes, the text cursor stands behind the right-most character (as expected).
I pressed the cursor-right button plus shift and the selection gets reduced by one character, the very first one (as expected).
So what did you do and where did you get a reaction that you did not expect?
(Uh, yes: I did the same with an editable field in the files list with the same results)