---
title: body
framework: retentionmessaging
role: symbol
role_heading: Type
path: retentionmessaging/body
---

# body

The body text you provide for a message.

## Declaration

```data
string body
```

## Discussion

Discussion Provide the body as a UTF-8-encoded string. The maximum string length is 144. The body text appears, along with the header text, in a message.

## See Also

### Messages

- [messageIdentifier](retentionmessaging/messageidentifier.md)
- [messageState](retentionmessaging/messagestate.md)
- [BulletPoint](retentionmessaging/bulletpoint.md)
- [bulletPointText](retentionmessaging/bulletpointtext.md)
- [header](retentionmessaging/header.md)
- [headerPosition](retentionmessaging/headerposition.md)