HTC Desire User Manual page 198

198 Internet
Selecting text
1. Press and hold on a word.
To select text in a link, press and hold the link, and then tap Copy text.
2. Drag the start and end markers to highlight the surrounding text
you want to select.
When you select a larger block of text, the appearance of the
markers changes. You can drag these markers up or down to
select multiple paragraphs of text.
1

1 Tap to copy, search/translate, or share the text.
2 Start and end markers. Drag to increase or
decrease the text selection area.