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# NSSecureTextFieldCell

A text field whose value is hidden from the user.

```
class NSSecureTextFieldCell
```

## Overview

[`NSSecureTextFieldCell`](/documentation/AppKit/NSSecureTextFieldCell) works with [`NSSecureTextField`](/documentation/AppKit/NSSecureTextField) and overrides the general cell use of the field editor to provide its own field editor, which doesn’t display text or allow the user to cut or copy its value.

## Topics

### Working with character echo

[`echosBullets`](/documentation/AppKit/NSSecureTextFieldCell/echosBullets)

A Boolean that indicates whether the receiver echoes a bullet character rather than each character typed.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`NSUserInterfaceItemIdentification`](/documentation/AppKit/NSUserInterfaceItemIdentification)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`NSCopying`](/documentation/Foundation/NSCopying)

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`NSAccessibilityProtocol`](/documentation/AppKit/NSAccessibilityProtocol)

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`NSAccessibilityElementProtocol`](/documentation/AppKit/NSAccessibilityElementProtocol)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

[`NSCoding`](/documentation/Foundation/NSCoding)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

### Inherits From

[`NSTextFieldCell`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextFieldCell)

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