---
title: Text Field
framework: appkit
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: appkit/text-field
---

# Text Field

Provide a simple interface for displaying and editing text, including support for password fields and secure forms of text entry.

## Topics

### Views

- [NSTextField](appkit/nstextfield.md)
- [NSSecureTextField](appkit/nssecuretextfield.md)

### Management

- [NSTextFieldDelegate](appkit/nstextfielddelegate.md)
- [NSControlTextEditingDelegate](appkit/nscontroltexteditingdelegate.md)

### Cell

- [NSTextFieldCell](appkit/nstextfieldcell.md)
- [NSSecureTextFieldCell](appkit/nssecuretextfieldcell.md)

## See Also

### Controls

- [Responding to control-based events using target-action](uikit/responding-to-control-based-events-using-target-action.md)
- [NSButton](appkit/nsbutton.md)
- [NSColorWell](appkit/nscolorwell.md)
- [Combo Box](appkit/combo-box.md)
- [NSComboButton](appkit/nscombobutton.md)
- [Date Picker](appkit/date-picker.md)
- [NSImageView](appkit/nsimageview.md)
- [NSLevelIndicator](appkit/nslevelindicator.md)
- [Path Control](appkit/path-control.md)
- [NSPopUpButton](appkit/nspopupbutton.md)
- [NSProgressIndicator](appkit/nsprogressindicator.md)
- [NSRuleEditor](appkit/nsruleeditor.md)
- [NSPredicateEditor](appkit/nspredicateeditor.md)
- [Search Field](appkit/search-field.md)
- [NSSegmentedControl](appkit/nssegmentedcontrol.md)