---
title: isFieldEditor
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nstextview/isfieldeditor
---

# isFieldEditor

A Boolean value that controls whether the text views sharing the receiver’s layout manager behave as field editors.

## Declaration

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

## Discussion

Discussion Field editors interpret Tab, Shift-Tab, and Return (Enter) as cues to end editing and possibly to change the first responder. Non-field editors instead accept these characters as text input. See Text Fields, Text Views, and the Field Editor for more information on field editors. By default, text views don’t behave as field editors.

## See Also

### Setting behavioral attributes

- [allowsUndo](appkit/nstextview/allowsundo.md)
- [isEditable](appkit/nstextview/iseditable.md)
- [isSelectable](appkit/nstextview/isselectable.md)
- [isRichText](appkit/nstextview/isrichtext.md)
- [importsGraphics](appkit/nstextview/importsgraphics.md)
- [setBaseWritingDirection(_:range:)](appkit/nstextview/setbasewritingdirection(_:range:).md)
- [defaultParagraphStyle](appkit/nstextview/defaultparagraphstyle.md)
- [outline(_:)](appkit/nstextview/outline(_:).md)
- [allowsImageEditing](appkit/nstextview/allowsimageediting.md)
- [isAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled](appkit/nstextview/isautomaticquotesubstitutionenabled.md)
- [toggleAutomaticQuoteSubstitution(_:)](appkit/nstextview/toggleautomaticquotesubstitution(_:).md)
- [isAutomaticLinkDetectionEnabled](appkit/nstextview/isautomaticlinkdetectionenabled.md)
- [toggleAutomaticLinkDetection(_:)](appkit/nstextview/toggleautomaticlinkdetection(_:).md)
- [displaysLinkToolTips](appkit/nstextview/displayslinktooltips.md)
- [isAutomaticTextCompletionEnabled](appkit/nstextview/isautomatictextcompletionenabled.md)