From 3f3ed7ec28361d57c9f2c8897eba361ba3f4f3ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Wen <jwen2914@uni.sydney.edu.au>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 21:54:41 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Text component touch area to include padding on iOS

When a Text component has padding, onPress events were not triggered
when clicking in the padding area on iOS. This was caused by overly
strict hit testing logic in getEventEmitterWithAttributeString.

The previous logic rejected touch points where fraction == 0 or 1,
which occurs when clicking in padding areas. This fix removes the
fraction check and allows any valid character index within the text
storage to return an event emitter.

Fixes #54056
---
 .../textlayoutmanager/RCTTextLayoutManager.mm        | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTTextLayoutManager.mm b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTTextLayoutManager.mm
index 3b4109c44aecc1..90448421b39923 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTTextLayoutManager.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTTextLayoutManager.mm
@@ -260,18 +260,18 @@ - (SharedEventEmitter)getEventEmitterWithAttributeString:(AttributedString)attri
       _textStorageAndLayoutManagerWithAttributesString:[self _nsAttributedStringFromAttributedString:attributedString]
                                    paragraphAttributes:paragraphAttributes
                                                   size:frame.size];
+
   NSLayoutManager *layoutManager = textStorage.layoutManagers.firstObject;
   NSTextContainer *textContainer = layoutManager.textContainers.firstObject;
 
   CGFloat fraction;
   NSUInteger characterIndex = [layoutManager characterIndexForPoint:point
-                                                    inTextContainer:textContainer
-                           fractionOfDistanceBetweenInsertionPoints:&fraction];
+                                                     inTextContainer:textContainer
+                                            fractionOfDistanceBetweenInsertionPoints:&fraction];
 
-  // If the point is not before (fraction == 0.0) the first character and not
-  // after (fraction == 1.0) the last character, then the attribute is valid.
-  if (textStorage.length > 0 && (fraction > 0 || characterIndex > 0) &&
-      (fraction < 1 || characterIndex < textStorage.length - 1)) {
+  // Modified: Allow clicks anywhere in the text storage bounds, not just on characters
+  // This fixes the issue where padding areas are not clickable
+  if (textStorage.length > 0 && characterIndex < textStorage.length) {
     NSData *eventEmitterWrapper = (NSData *)[textStorage attribute:RCTAttributedStringEventEmitterKey
                                                            atIndex:characterIndex
                                                     effectiveRange:NULL];