Text selection API for text input fields

[yuriy-fix]

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Description

Introduce text selection API for text-field based input components.

Use cases

As a developer I want to operate with selected text ranges of the input fields So that I can set text selection ranges as well as set cursor position.

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] API for setting and getting selection ranges should be implemented in web-components
• [ ] API for setting and getting cursor position should be implemented in web-components
• [ ] Should be introduced as an interface that could be implemented by input components (flow component)
• [ ] Should have API for selecting range with two int parameters: start and end (flow component)
• [ ] Should have API for setting cursor position as int (flow component)
• [ ] Introduce convenience methods for selectAll and deselectAll

General criteria

• [ ] APIs reviewed

• [ ] Performance

• [ ] UX/DX tests in Alpha

• [ ] Documentation:

• [ ] How to test?

• [ ] Limitations:
• No getters for flow component for now, might be considered as a separate enhancement