# How to add inline text editing for a custom component?

**URL:** <https://forum.builder.io/t/how-to-add-inline-text-editing-for-a-custom-component/4936>\
**Category:** Technical Questions\
**Tags:** visual-editor, react\
**Created:** [February 5, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/how-to-add-inline-text-editing-for-a-custom-component/4936 "2024-02-05T20:46:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![francois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@francois](https://forum.builder.io/u/francois)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/how-to-add-inline-text-editing-for-a-custom-component/4936/1 "2024-02-05T20:46:07Z")

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**What are you trying to accomplish**  
I want to add inline text editing to my custom Text component. There doesn’t seem to be any documentation or topic on the forum on this subject. I did check the Github of the React SDK and I tried to copy the code from the core Text component but it did not work.

Is there an official way to implement this?  
What is the point of automatically adding a field to enable inline text editing if it does not work?

**Code stack you are integrating Builder with**  
React and Next.js

**Reproducible code example**  
Here’s the link to the core Text component which support inline text editing:

> <https://github.com/BuilderIO/builder/blob/main/packages/react/src/blocks/Text.tsx>

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**Author:** ![anon43891756](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@anon43891756](https://forum.builder.io/u/anon43891756)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/how-to-add-inline-text-editing-for-a-custom-component/4936/2 "2024-02-20T09:46:07Z")

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Hi @francois Welcome to [Builder.io](http://Builder.io) Forum!

Here’s official documentation on this topic [Adding Children to Custom Components - Builder.io](https://www.builder.io/c/docs/custom-components-children#adding-editable-regions-to-custom-components)

Feel free to reach out if this doesn’t help!

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**Author:** ![francois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@francois](https://forum.builder.io/u/francois)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/how-to-add-inline-text-editing-for-a-custom-component/4936/3 "2024-02-20T14:50:30Z")

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This link has nothing to do with inline text editing.

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**Author:** ![anon43891756](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@anon43891756](https://forum.builder.io/u/anon43891756)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.builder.io/t/how-to-add-inline-text-editing-for-a-custom-component/4936/4 "2024-03-05T16:38:55Z")

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@francois Sorry I’ve misunderstood your use case. Based on the provided details, this looks like an excellent feature request. I recommend submitting it at [https://ideas.builder.io/](https://ideas.builder.io/)

Our engineering team regularly reviews requests based on a number of factors: benefits, added value, technical fit, votes, and feasibility. As your Feature Request progresses through our review process, you will be kept updated.

I would also encourage you to review other Feature Requests already listed and add your vote on the features you would like to see!