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# Toolbar

Provide a space for controls under a window’s title bar and above your custom content.

## Topics

### View

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/integrating-a-toolbar-and-touch-bar-into-your-app>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbar>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbarItemValidation>

### Items

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbarItem>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbarItemGroup>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbarItemGroup/ControlRepresentation-swift.enum>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbarItemGroup/SelectionMode-swift.enum>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSMenuToolbarItem>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSSearchToolbarItem>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSTrackingSeparatorToolbarItem>

[`class NSUIViewToolbarItem`](/documentation/UIKit/NSUIViewToolbarItem)

An item in a window’s toolbar that hosts a custom UIKit view.

### Items

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbarItem>

[NSToolbarItemIdentifier](/documentation/UIKit/NSToolbarItemIdentifier)

UIKit-specific constants for the standard toolbar items that the system provides.

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbarItemGroup>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbarItemGroup/ControlRepresentation-swift.enum>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSToolbarItemGroup/SelectionMode-swift.enum>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSMenuToolbarItem>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSSearchToolbarItem>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSTrackingSeparatorToolbarItem>

[`class NSUIViewToolbarItem`](/documentation/UIKit/NSUIViewToolbarItem)

An item in a window’s toolbar that hosts a custom UIKit view.

### Item validation

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppKit/NSCloudSharingValidation>


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