---
title: UTTypePlainText
framework: uniformtypeidentifiers
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeplaintext
---

# UTTypePlainText

A type that represents text with no markup and an unspecified encoding.

## Declaration

```occ
extern UTType * const UTTypePlainText;
```

## Discussion

Discussion The identifier for this type is public.plain-text. This type conforms to UTTypeText.

## See Also

### Text files

- [UTTypeText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypetext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF8PlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf8plaintext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF16PlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf16plaintext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF16ExternalPlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf16externalplaintext.md)