---
title: inputMessageText
description: Text message
---
## Constructor: inputMessageText  
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Text message

### Attributes:

| Name     |    Type       | Required | Description |
|----------|:-------------:|:--------:|------------:|
|text|[string](../types/string.md) | Yes|Text to send|
|disable\_web\_page\_preview|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Yes|Pass true to disable rich preview for link in the message text|
|clear\_draft|[Bool](../types/Bool.md) | Yes|Pass true if chat draft message should be deleted|
|entities|Array of [MessageEntity](../constructors/MessageEntity.md) | Yes|Bold, Italic, Code, Pre, PreCode and TextUrl entities contained in the text. Non-bot users can't use TextUrl entities. Can't be used with non-null parse_mode|
|parse\_mode|[TextParseMode](../types/TextParseMode.md) | Yes|Text parse mode, nullable. Can't be used along with enitities|



### Type: [InputMessageContent](../types/InputMessageContent.md)


### Example:

```
$inputMessageText = ['_' => 'inputMessageText', 'text' => string, 'disable_web_page_preview' => Bool, 'clear_draft' => Bool, 'entities' => [MessageEntity], 'parse_mode' => TextParseMode, ];
```  

[PWRTelegram](https://pwrtelegram.xyz) json-encoded version:

```
{"_":"inputMessageText","text":"string","disable_web_page_preview":"Bool","clear_draft":"Bool","entities":["MessageEntity"],"parse_mode":"TextParseMode"}
```


Or, if you're into Lua:  


```
inputMessageText={_='inputMessageText', text=string, disable_web_page_preview=Bool, clear_draft=Bool, entities={MessageEntity}, parse_mode=TextParseMode, }

```