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title: sendMessage
description: Sends a message. Returns sent message. UpdateChatTopMessage will not be sent, so returned message should be used to update chat top message
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## Method: sendMessage
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YOU CANNOT USE THIS METHOD IN MADELINEPROTO
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Sends a message. Returns sent message. UpdateChatTopMessage will not be sent, so returned message should be used to update chat top message
### Params:
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
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|----------|---------------|----------|-------------|
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|chat\_id|[int53](../types/int53.md) | Yes|Chat to send message|
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|reply\_to\_message\_id|[int53](../types/int53.md) | Yes|Identifier of a message to reply to or 0|
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|disable\_notification|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Yes|Pass true, to disable notification about the message, doesn't works in secret chats|
|from\_background|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Yes|Pass true, if the message is sent from background|
|reply\_markup|[ReplyMarkup](../types/ReplyMarkup.md) | Yes|Bots only. Markup for replying to message|
|input\_message\_content|[InputMessageContent](../types/InputMessageContent.md) | Yes|Content of a message to send|
### Return type: [Message](../types/Message.md)
