MadelineProtoDocs/docs/API_docs/constructors/draftMessage.md

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Constructor: draftMessage

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Represents a message draft.

Attributes:

Name	Type	Required	Description
no_webpage	Bool	Optional	Whether no webpage preview will be generated
invert_media	Bool	Optional	If set, any eventual webpage preview will be shown on top of the message instead of at the bottom.
reply_to	InputReplyTo	Optional	If set, indicates that the message should be sent in reply to the specified message or story.
message	string	Yes	The draft
entities	Array of MessageEntity	Optional	Message entities for styled text.
parse_mode	string	Whether to parse HTML or Markdown markup in the message	Optional
media	InputMedia	Optional	Media.
date	int	Yes	Date of last update of the draft.

Type: DraftMessage

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:

<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), note that to create mentions you can also use the mention: syntax like in html:

*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)

Example:

$draftMessage = ['_' => 'draftMessage', 'no_webpage' => Bool, 'invert_media' => Bool, 'reply_to' => InputReplyTo, 'message' => 'string', 'entities' => [MessageEntity, MessageEntity]parse_mode: 'string', , 'media' => InputMedia, 'date' => int];