---
title: UTTypeText
framework: uniformtypeidentifiers
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypetext
---

# UTTypeText

A base type that represents all text-encoded data, including text with markup.

## Declaration

```occ
extern UTType * const UTTypeText;
```

## Discussion

Discussion The identifier for this type is public.text. This type conforms to UTTypeData and UTTypeContent.

## See Also

### Text files

- [UTTypePlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeplaintext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF8PlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf8plaintext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF16PlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf16plaintext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF16ExternalPlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf16externalplaintext.md)