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# contentView

The content that markup appears on top of.

```
@MainActor @preconcurrency var contentView: NSView? { get set }
```

## Discussion

The system sizes the content view to the frame of the `markup` and adds it below all the markup and drawing.
When `nil`, markup appears on top of a blank white canvas.

Default is `nil`.

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