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In compatible browsers, an edit toolbar can be automatically displayed with the edit box, provided that this has been set in the preferences. It appears automatically for editors who are not logged in. This functions partly as a typing aid and partly as a reminder of the available functions. All the functions are available simply by typing the code directly into the edit box (such as link) – this may be easier.

The toolbar works with Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, the Mozilla Suite/SeaMonkey, Konqueror, Safari and Opera.

In Mozilla browsers, IE, and Chrome, you can format existing text by highlighting the text you want to format and clicking the relevant button on the toolbar. If you click a button without selecting any text, sample text will be inserted at the cursor's position (like so: Bold text). In other browsers, clicking on the button presents an explanation for that feature. (Pre-release 9.0 versions of Opera browser also seem to support the advanced functionality.)

You can switch off or switch on personal preferences set at {{myprefs|Editing|check={{MediaWiki:Wikieditor-toolbar-preference}}}}.

=Source editor=

If your toolbar looks like this:

center

Then you are using the source editor.

= VisualEditor =

If your toolbar looks like this:

File:VisualEditor toolbar-en.png

Then you are using the rich-text visual editor.

List of functions

class="wikitable"

|+ Source editor

! Icon !! Function !! What it shows when editing !! What it shows on the page

colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" |File:WikiEditor-toolbar-en.png
File:OOjs UI icon bold-b.svg

!Bold

|Bold text

|Bold text

File:OOjs UI icon italic-i.svg

!Italic

|Italic text

|Italic text

File:OOjs UI icon signature-ltr.svg

!Sign talk comments
(with time stamp)

|--~~~~

|Username (talk) {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} (UTC)

File:OOjs UI icon link-ltr.svg

!Internal link

|Link title

|Link title

File:OOjs UI icon image-ltr.svg

! Insert image

|thumbnail

| thumbnail

File:OOjs UI icon puzzle-ltr.svg

! Insert template

| {{Example}}

| {{Example}}

File:OOjs UI icon reference.svg

! Insert Reference

| Insert footnote text here

| Insert footnote text here

File:OOjs UI icon highlight.svg

! Activate highlighting in wikitext

| link= active

|{{Meta|Community Tech/Wikitext editor syntax highlighting|Wikitext editor syntax highlighting}}

{{MediaWiki|Extension:CodeMirror}}

colspan="2" | File:OOjs_UI_icon_next-ltr.svg Advanced

! Open advanced menu

| See below.

colspan="2" | File:OOjs_UI_icon_next-ltr.svg Special characters

! Open special characters menu

| See below.

colspan="2" | File:OOjs_UI_icon_next-ltr.svg Help

! Open help menu

| See below.

colspan="2" | File:OOjs_UI_icon_next-ltr.svg Cite

! Open cite toolbar menu

| See Wikipedia:RefToolbar/2.0.

style="white-space: nowrap;"| link= File:OOjs UI icon expand.svg

! Change "Source editing"
to "Visual editing"

|

|

{| class="wikitable"

|+ Advanced selections

! Icon !! Function !! What it shows when editing !! What it shows on the page

|-

| colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" |File:WikiEditor-advanced menu-en.png

|-

|File:WikiEditor-heading menu-en.png

| Section heading

|== Heading text ==

= Heading text =

== Heading text ==

===== Heading text =====

|{{fake heading|sub=2|Heading text}}

{{fake heading|sub=3|Heading text}}

{{fake heading|sub=4|Heading text}}

{{fake heading|sub=5|Heading text}}

|-

| File:OOjs UI icon listBullet-ltr.svg

| Bulleted list

| * Bulleted list item

|

  • Bulleted list item

|-

| File:OOjs UI icon listNumbered-ltr.svg

| Numbered list

| # Numbered list item

|

  1. Numbered list item

|-

| File:OOjs UI icon noWikiText-ltr.svg

| Nowiki: Ignore wiki formatting

| Insert non-formatted text here

| Insert non-formatted text here

|-

| link=

| Line break

|

| text before
abc

|-

| link=

| Big text

| Big text

| Big text

|-

| link=

| Small text

| Small text

| Small text

|-

| link=

| Superscript

| Superscript text

| Superscript text

|-

| link=

| Subscript

| Subscript text

| Subscript text

|-

| link=

| Picture gallery

| style="text-align: left;" |

Example.jpg|Caption1

Example.jpg|Caption2

|

Example.jpg|Caption1

Example.jpg|Caption2

|-

| link=

| Table

|

class="wikitable" border="1"
header 1

! header 2

! header 3

row 1, cell 1

| row 1, cell 2

| row 1, cell 3

row 2, cell 1

| row 2, cell 2

| row 2, cell 3

|

class="wikitable" border="1"
header 1

! header 2

! header 3

row 1, cell 1

| row 1, cell 2

| row 1, cell 3

row 2, cell 1

| row 2, cell 2

| row 2, cell 3

|-

| link=

| Automatically redirect to another page

| #REDIRECT Target page name

| [{{fullurl:Acidic|redirect=no}} Preview a redirect page]

|}

class="wikitable" style="margin-top:0"
File:OOjs UI icon articleSearch-ltr.svg

|Search and Replace

|

  • Search for strings of text and optionally replace them, progressing one at a time or replacing all occurrences at once.
  • If the regular expressions check box is selected, then the targeted search term is interpreted as a symbolic "expression", called a "regular expression", which will act as a pattern to select targets for replacement. Any amount of text can be matched by a regular expression. Languages that use this type of regular expression include Perl, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, .NET, and XML.
  • A list of the regular expressions accepted by this search and replace box [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide%2FRegular_Expressions has been compiled for reference by the Mozilla Contributors.]

See also

{{Commons|MediaWiki edit toolbar}}

{{Help navigation}}

Category:Wikipedia interface help

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