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For the toolbar that shows under the edit window and allows the insertion of various characters and symbols, see Help:CharInsert.

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 Internet Explorer, the Mozilla Suite/SeaMonkey, Firefox, Konqueror, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome.

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.)

The Edit Toolbar has a different appearance depending on personal preferences set at Preferences → Editing:

Enable enhanced editing toolbar Enable wizards for links, formatting, tables, citations, and the search and replace function Toolbar
Off Off
On
RefToolbar 1.0.png
Standard toolbar
On Off RefToolbar 2.0a.png
Enhanced editing toolbar
On RefToolbar 2.0b.png
Enhanced editing toolbar with wizards

Visual editor

If your toolbar looks like this:

0.8x

Then you are using the rich-text visual editor.

List of functions

Enhanced toolbar: main selections
Icon Function What it shows when editing What it shows on the page
Enhanced editing toolbar
Bold text Bold '''Bold text''' Bold text
Italic text Italic ''Italic text'' Italic text
External link External link [http://www.example.com link title] link title
Internal link Internal link [[Link title]] Link title
Embedded file Insert image [[File:Example.jpg|thumbnail]]
Example.jpg
Vector toolbar insert reference button.png Insert Footnotes <ref>Insert footnote text here</ref> [1]
Your signature with timestamp Sign talk comments
(with time stamp)
--~~~~ Username (talk) 00:08, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Insert citation Insert citation See below.
Advanced Advanced See below.
Special characters Special characters See below.
Help Help See below.
Enhanced toolbar with wizards: main selections
Icon Function What it shows when editing What it shows on the page
Enhanced editing toolbar with wizards
Bold text Bold '''Bold text''' Bold text
Italic text Italic ''Italic text'' Italic text
Your signature with timestamp Sign talk comments
(with time stamp)
--~~~~ Username (talk) 00:08, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Internal link Internal link [[Link title]] Link title
Embedded file Insert image
Vector toolbar insert reference button.png Insert Footnotes
Advanced Advanced See below.
Special characters Special characters See below.
Help Help See below.
Cite toolbar Cite toolbar See Wikipedia:RefToolbar/2.0.
Enhanced toolbar with wizards: Advanced selections
Icon Function What it shows when editing What it shows on the page
Enhanced editing toolbar with wizards
Vector toolbar search-replace button.png 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 has been compiled for reference by the Mozilla Contributors.
Advanced selections
Icon Function What it shows when editing What it shows on the page
Enhanced toolbar- Advanced toolbar
Enhanced toolbar- Heading toolbar Section heading

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

Heading text
Heading text
Heading text
Heading text
Bulleted list Bulleted list * Bulleted list item
  • Bulleted list item
Numbered list Numbered list # Numbered list item
  1. Numbered list item
Ignore wiki formatting Nowiki: Ignore wiki formatting <nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki> Insert non-formatted text here
Vector toolbar insert new line button.png Line break <br /> text before
abc
Vector toolbar big text button.png Big text <big>Big text</big> Big text
Vector toolbar small text button.png Small text <small>Small text</small> Small text
Vector toolbar superscript button.png Superscript <sup>Superscript text</sup> Superscript text
Vector toolbar subscript button.png Subscript <sub>Subscript text</sub> Subscript text
Vector toolbar insert picture gallery button.png Picture gallery

<gallery>
Example.jpg|Caption1
Example.jpg|Caption2
</gallery>

Vector toolbar insert table button.png 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
|}

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
Vector toolbar redirect button.png Automatically redirect to another page #REDIRECT [[Target page name]] Preview a redirect page

See also

  1. ^ Insert footnote text here