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# textView

The editable text view in the compose view.

```
var textView: NSTextView! { get }
```

## Discussion

When a user activates a Post or Send button, you can send their text by sending `self.textView.text`. Note that the `SLComposeServiceViewController` base class creates `textView` in its <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/UIKit/UIViewController/loadView()> method and sets itself to be the `textView` delegate.

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