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

# header

The header text you provide that appears above the body text in a message.

## Declaration

```data
string header
```

## Discussion

Discussion Provide the header as a UTF-8-encoded string. The maximum string length is 66. The header text appears above the body text in a message, or above the image. Body text appears below an optional image.

## See Also

### Messages

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