# Connot get correct selection in childNode

**URL:** <https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/connot-get-correct-selection-in-childnode/4848>\
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**Created:** [August 23, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/connot-get-correct-selection-in-childnode/4848 "2022-08-23T03:09:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![xclwxclw](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/edb3f5/32.png) [@xclwxclw](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/xclwxclw)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/connot-get-correct-selection-in-childnode/4848/1 "2022-08-23T03:09:44Z")

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Now I have a Node which have a textNode as childNode. I want to select text so I set nodeview’s setSelection but selection is wrong. The TextSelection is whole childNode but I want to select a part of it. How should I do.

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**Author:** ![marijn](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/user_avatar/discuss.prosemirror.net/marijn/32/15_2.png) [@marijn](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/marijn)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/connot-get-correct-selection-in-childnode/4848/2 "2022-08-23T05:55:53Z")

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Text selections can select parts of text nodes. But selecting is not done through node views — you have to dispatch an editor transaction that sets the selection.

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**Author:** ![xclwxclw](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/edb3f5/32.png) [@xclwxclw](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/u/xclwxclw)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/connot-get-correct-selection-in-childnode/4848/3 "2022-08-23T08:49:50Z")

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thank you, and Now I get the Selection, but I want to add Decoration in childNode, How should I do. \* It doesn’t seem to work use Decoration.inline