---
title: "messages.saveDraft"
description: "Save a message [draft](https://core.telegram.org/api/drafts) associated to a chat."
grand_parent: "Telegram RPC API"
parent: "Methods"
image: https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/favicons/android-chrome-256x256.png
redirect_from: /API_docs/methods/messages_saveDraft.html
---
# Method: messages.saveDraft
[Back to methods index](index.html)



Save a message [draft](https://core.telegram.org/api/drafts) associated to a chat.

### Parameters:

| Name     |    Type       | Description | Required |
|----------|---------------|-------------|----------|
|no\_webpage|[Bool](/API_docs/types/Bool.html) | Disable generation of the webpage preview | Optional|
|invert\_media|[Bool](/API_docs/types/Bool.html) | If set, any eventual webpage preview will be shown on top of the message instead of at the bottom. | Optional|
|reply\_to|[InputReplyTo](/API_docs/types/InputReplyTo.html) | If set, indicates that the message should be sent in reply to the specified message or story. | Optional|
|peer|[Username, chat ID, Update, Message or InputPeer](/API_docs/types/InputPeer.html) | Destination of the message that should be sent | Optional|
|message|[string](/API_docs/types/string.html) | The draft | Optional|
|entities|Array of [MessageEntity](/API_docs/types/MessageEntity.html) | Message [entities](https://core.telegram.org/api/entities) for styled text | Optional|
|parse\_mode| [string](/API_docs/types/string.html) | Whether to parse HTML or Markdown markup in the message| Optional |
|media|[MessageMedia, Update, Message or InputMedia](/API_docs/types/InputMedia.html) | Attached media | Optional|


### Return type: [Bool](/API_docs/types/Bool.html)

### Can bots use this method: **NO**


### MadelineProto Example ([now async for huge speed and parallelism!](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/ASYNC.html)):


```php
if (!file_exists('madeline.php')) {
    copy('https://phar.madelineproto.xyz/madeline.php', 'madeline.php');
}
include 'madeline.php';

$MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API('session.madeline');
$MadelineProto->start();

$Bool = $MadelineProto->messages->saveDraft(no_webpage: $Bool, invert_media: $Bool, reply_to: $InputReplyTo, peer: $InputPeer, message: 'string', entities: [$MessageEntity, $MessageEntity], parse_mode: 'string', media: $InputMedia, );
```


## Return value 

If the length of the provided message is bigger than 4096, the message will be split in chunks and the method will be called multiple times, with the same parameters (except for the message), and an array of [Bool](../types/Bool.html) will be returned instead.



## Usage of parse_mode:

Set parse_mode to html to enable HTML parsing of the message.  

Set parse_mode to Markdown to enable markdown parsing of the message.  

The following tags are currently supported:

```html
<br>a newline
<b><i>bold works ok, internal tags are stripped</i> </b>
<strong>bold</strong>
<em>italic</em>
<i>italic</i>
<u>underline</u>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<code>inline fixed-width code</code>
<pre>pre-formatted fixed-width code block</pre>
<blockquote>pre-formatted fixed-width code block</blockquote>
<a href="https://github.com">URL</a>
<a href="mention:@danogentili">Mention by username</a>
<a href="mention:186785362">Mention by user id</a>
<a href="tg://user?id=186785362">Mention by user id</a>
Custom emoji: <emoji id="5368324170671202286">👍</emoji>
Custom emoji: <tg-emoji emoji-id="5368324170671202286">👍</tg-emoji>
<pre language="json">Pre tags can have a language attribute</pre>
<spoiler>Spoiler</spoiler>
<tg-spoiler>Spoiler</tg-spoiler>
```

You can also use normal markdown ([bot API MarkdownV2 syntax](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#markdownv2-style)), note that to create mentions you can also use the `mention:` syntax like in html:  

```markdown
*bold \*text*
_italic \*text_
__underline__
~strikethrough~
||spoiler||
*bold _italic bold ~italic bold strikethrough ||italic bold strikethrough spoiler||~ __underline italic bold___ bold*
[inline URL](http://www.example.com/)
[inline mention of a user](tg://user?id=123456789)
![👍](tg://emoji?id=5368324170671202286)
\`inline fixed-width code\`
\`\`\`
pre-formatted fixed-width code block
\`\`\`
\`\`\`php
pre-formatted fixed-width code block written in the PHP programming language
\`\`\`

[Mention by username](mention:@danogentili)
[Mention by user id](mention:186785362)
[Mention by user id](tg://user?id=186785362)
[👍](emoji:5368324170671202286)
[👍](tg://emoji?id=5368324170671202286)
```