richeditbox_textcompositionstarted.md

-api-id	-api-type
E:Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.RichEditBox.TextCompositionStarted	winrt event

Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.RichEditBox.TextCompositionStarted

-description

Occurs when a user starts composing text through an Input Method Editor (IME).

-xaml-syntax

<RichEditBox TextCompositionStarted="eventhandler"/>

-remarks

For event data, see TextCompositionStartedEventArgs.

This event occurs only when text is composed through an Input Method Editor (IME). Text composition events occur in the following order:

• TextCompositionStarted
• TextChanging
• TextChanged
• TextCompositionChanged
• TextCompositionEnded

After the TextCompositionStarted event, the TextChanging > TextChanged > TextCompositionChanged event cycle can occur multiple times before the TextCompositionEnded event occurs.

-examples

-see-also

TextCompositionStartedEventArgs, Input Method Editor (IME)