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# UITextDirection

The direction of the text.

```
struct UITextDirection
```

## Overview

This parameter is used in methods declared by the [`UITextInputTokenizer`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextInputTokenizer) protocol. This general direction type subsumes constants of the [`UITextStorageDirection`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextStorageDirection) and [`UITextLayoutDirection`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextLayoutDirection) types.

## Topics

### Text direction types

[`layout(_:)`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextDirection/layout(_:))

Specifies the direction of text layout.

[`storage(_:)`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextDirection/storage(_:))

Specifies the direction of text storage.

### Initializers

[`init(rawValue:)`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextDirection/init(rawValue:))

Creates a text direction with the specified raw value.


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