--- title: Creating a SwiftUI text view with tappable links | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of building a custom SwiftUI `LinkText` view that mixes plain text and tappable links using SwiftUI's built-in Markdown support. The post... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-swiftui-text-view-with-tappable-links-i7cbnfhtr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Creating a SwiftUI text view with tappable links | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of building a custom SwiftUI `LinkText` view that mixes plain text and tappable links using SwiftUI's built-in Markdown support. The post... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-swiftui-text-view-with-tappable-links-i7cbnfhtr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/i7cBNFhtR.png og:image:alt: Creating a SwiftUI text view with tappable links og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Creating a SwiftUI text view with tappable links **[Daniel Saidi](https://daily.dev/sources/danielsaidi)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of building a custom SwiftUI `LinkText` view that mixes plain text and tappable links using SwiftUI's built-in Markdown support. The post explains why Text concatenation falls short for tappable links, demonstrates using Markdown strings directly in `Text`, then builds a cleaner `LinkText` component with typed `Component` enum values, a `LinkStyle` struct for bold/italic formatting, and SwiftUI environment injection for global link styling. The final implementation is cross-platform and available in the open-source SwiftUIKit library. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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