---
title: text
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: avfoundation/avcaption/text
---

# text

The caption text.

## Declaration

```swift
var text: String { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Apple iTT format text supports the same Unicode code points that an XML document supports. The system converts XML special characters like ‘&’ to corresponding character-reference syntax when it writes the caption to a file. The text may contain the line-breaking character sequences LF, CR, or CF+LF. CEA608 closed captions support the following Unicode characters. They don’t support the line-breaking character sequences LF, CR, or CF+LF.  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |

## See Also

### Accessing text and timing

- [timeRange](avfoundation/avcaption/timerange.md)