---
title: textView
framework: social
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: social/slcomposeserviceviewcontroller/textview
---

# textView

The editable text view in the compose view.

## Declaration

```swift
var textView: UITextView! { get }
```

```swift
var textView: NSTextView! { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion When a user activates a Post or Send button, you can send their text by sending self.textView.text. Note that the SLComposeServiceViewController base class creates textView in its loadView() method and sets itself to be the textView delegate.

## See Also

### Managing the Contents of the Post

- [contentText](social/slcomposeserviceviewcontroller/contenttext.md)
- [placeholder](social/slcomposeserviceviewcontroller/placeholder.md)