What text feature do you need?
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+- Display styled read-only text
|  +- Simple styling (one style) -> Text Styling section below
|  +- Mixed styles in one string -> AttributedString section below
|  +- Markdown content -> Markdown section below
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+- Edit plain text
|  +- TextEditor(text: $stringBinding)
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+- Edit rich/styled text
|  +- Basic rich editor -> Rich Text Editing section below
|  +- With formatting toolbar -> Formatting Controls section below
|  +- With custom constraints -> Custom Formatting section below

// Font
Text("Hello").font(.headline)
Text("Custom").font(.system(size: 24, design: .rounded))

// Weight
Text("Bold").fontWeight(.bold)

// Color — prefer foregroundStyle over foregroundColor
Text("Styled").foregroundStyle(.red)
Text("Gradient").foregroundStyle(
    .linearGradient(colors: [.yellow, .blue], startPoint: .top, endPoint: .bottom)
)

// Decorations
Text("Bold").bold()
Text("Conditional").bold(someCondition)
Text("Underline").underline(true, pattern: .dash, color: .blue)
Text("Strike").strikethrough(true, pattern: .dot, color: .red)

// Layout
Text("Centered").multilineTextAlignment(.center)
Text("Spaced").lineSpacing(10)
Text("Truncated").lineLimit(2).truncationMode(.tail)

// Create and style ranges
var text = AttributedString("Red and Blue")
if let redRange = text.range(of: "Red") {
    text[redRange].foregroundColor = .red
    text[redRange].font = .headline
}
if let blueRange = text.range(of: "Blue") {
    text[blueRange].foregroundColor = .blue
    text[blueRange].underlineStyle = .single
}

// Display
Text(text)

struct RichTextEditorView: View {
    @State private var text = AttributedString("Select text to format")
    @State private var selection = AttributedTextSelection()

    @Environment(\.fontResolutionContext) private var fontResolutionContext

    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            TextEditor(text: $text, selection: $selection)
                .frame(height: 200)

            HStack {
                Button(action: toggleBold) {
                    Image(systemName: "bold")
                }
                Button(action: toggleItalic) {
                    Image(systemName: "italic")
                }
                Button(action: toggleUnderline) {
                    Image(systemName: "underline")
                }
            }
        }
    }

    private func toggleBold() {
        text.transformAttributes(in: &selection) {
            let font = $0.font ?? .default
            let resolved = font.resolve(in: fontResolutionContext)
            $0.font = font.bold(!resolved.isBold)
        }
    }

    private func toggleItalic() {
        text.transformAttributes(in: &selection) {
            let font = $0.font ?? .default
            let resolved = font.resolve(in: fontResolutionContext)
            $0.font = font.italic(!resolved.isItalic)
        }
    }

    private func toggleUnderline() {
        text.transformAttributes(in: &selection) {
            if $0.underlineStyle != nil {
                $0.underlineStyle = nil
            } else {
                $0.underlineStyle = .single
            }
        }
    }
}

// Get current attributes at the selection/cursor
let attributes = selection.typingAttributes(in: text)
let currentColor = attributes.foregroundColor ?? .primary

// Set color on selection
text.transformAttributes(in: &selection) {
    $0.foregroundColor = .blue
}

struct MyTextFormatting: AttributedTextFormattingDefinition {
    typealias Scope = AttributeScopes.SwiftUIAttributes

    static let fontWeight = ValueConstraint(
        \.font,
        constraint: { font in
            guard let font = font else { return nil }
            let weight = font.resolve().weight
            return font.weight(weight == .bold ? .regular : .bold)
        }
    )
}

// Apply to TextEditor
TextEditor(text: $text, selection: $selection)
    .textFormattingDefinition(MyTextFormatting.self)

// Inline markdown support
Text("This is **bold** and *italic* text")
Text("Visit [Apple](https://www.apple.com)")
Text("Code: `inline code`")