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# Token Field

Provide a text field whose text can be rendered in a visually distinct way so that users can recognize portions more easily.

## Topics

### View

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

A text field that converts text into visually distinct tokens.

### Management

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

A set of optional methods implemented by delegates of [`NSTokenField`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTokenField) objects.

### Cell

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

A text field cell subclass that enables tokenized editing of an array of objects.

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

A set of optional methods implemented by delegates of [`NSTokenFieldCell`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTokenFieldCell) objects to work with tokenized strings.


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