# Markup Safety Choose the safest text API that matches your use case. ## Plain text first If you do not need rich text, use [`text`](/documentation/Adwaita/Label/text): ```swift label.text = userVisibleMessage ``` This never parses markup. ## Safe rich text with explicit escaping If you need markup tags, escape interpolated text: ```swift let title = PangoMarkup.escape(noteTitle) label.markup = "\(title)" ``` ## Styling ranges without markup Use [`attributes`](/documentation/Adwaita/Label/attributes) and [`TextAttributes`](/documentation/Adwaita/TextAttributes) when you want to highlight or decorate substrings while keeping the source text plain: ```swift let text = "Search results" let attrs = TextAttributes() attrs.addUnderline(range: text.startIndex..