---
title: textLayoutManager
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nstextview/textlayoutmanager
---

# textLayoutManager

The manager that lays out text for the receiver’s text container.

## Declaration

```swift
weak var textLayoutManager: NSTextLayoutManager? { get }
```

## See Also

### Accessing text system objects

- [stronglyReferencesTextStorage](appkit/nstextview/stronglyreferencestextstorage.md)
- [fieldEditor()](appkit/nstextview/fieldeditor().md)
- [textContainer](appkit/nstextview/textcontainer.md)
- [replaceTextContainer(_:)](appkit/nstextview/replacetextcontainer(_:).md)
- [textContainerInset](appkit/nstextview/textcontainerinset.md)
- [textContainerOrigin](appkit/nstextview/textcontainerorigin.md)
- [invalidateTextContainerOrigin()](appkit/nstextview/invalidatetextcontainerorigin().md)
- [layoutManager](appkit/nstextview/layoutmanager.md)
- [textContentStorage](appkit/nstextview/textcontentstorage.md)
- [textStorage](appkit/nstextview/textstorage.md)