---
title: showsInvisibleCharacters
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nslayoutmanager/showsinvisiblecharacters
---

# showsInvisibleCharacters

A Boolean value that indicates whether to substitute visible glyphs for whitespace and other typically invisible characters.

## Declaration

```swift
var showsInvisibleCharacters: Bool { get set }
```

## See Also

### Configuring the global layout manager options

- [allowsNonContiguousLayout](appkit/nslayoutmanager/allowsnoncontiguouslayout.md)
- [hasNonContiguousLayout](appkit/nslayoutmanager/hasnoncontiguouslayout.md)
- [showsControlCharacters](appkit/nslayoutmanager/showscontrolcharacters.md)
- [usesFontLeading](appkit/nslayoutmanager/usesfontleading.md)
- [backgroundLayoutEnabled](appkit/nslayoutmanager/backgroundlayoutenabled.md)
- [limitsLayoutForSuspiciousContents](appkit/nslayoutmanager/limitslayoutforsuspiciouscontents.md)
- [usesDefaultHyphenation](appkit/nslayoutmanager/usesdefaulthyphenation.md)