Text Explained

Text may refer to:

Written word

• Text (literary theory), any object that can be read, including:
  • Religious text, a writing that a religious tradition considers to be sacred
  • Text, a verse or passage from scripture used in expository preaching
  • Textbook, a book of instruction in any branch of study

Computing and telecommunications

• Plain text, unformatted text
• Text file, a type of computer file opened by most text software
• Text string, a sequence of characters manipulated by software
• Text message, a short electronic message designed for communication between mobile phone users
• Text (Chrome app), a text editor for the Google Chrome web browser
• tEXt, an ancillary chunk in the PNG image file format
• Text, the former name of Apple's Messages instant messenger
• Text (company), an AI and customer service software company

Arts and media

• TEXT, a Swedish band
• Text & Talk (formerly Text), an academic journal
• "Text", a 2010 song produced by J.R. Rotem, featuring Mann and Jason Derulo
• TxT (film), a 2006 Filipino horror film
• Text (film), a 2019 Russian film
• Text (2008 film), a 2008 American horror film

See also

• • Copy (written), written material in publications
• Discourse (disambiguation)
• Enriched text, formatted text format for e-mail
• Formatted text, digital text which has styling information beyond minimal semantic elements
• Rich Text Format, a proprietary document file format by Microsoft
• Tex (disambiguation)
• Text display, electronic alphanumeric display device
• Text mode, computer display mode based on characters
• Text segment, the portion of computer file containing executable instructions
• Writing, representation of language in a textual medium