Help:Edit toolbar

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

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 Preferences → Editing → Tick Enable the editing toolbar.

Source editor

If your toolbar looks like this:

Then you are using the source editor.

VisualEditor

If your toolbar looks like this:

Then you are using the rich-text visual editor.

List of functions

Source editor
Icon Function What it shows when editing What it shows on the page
WikiEditor toolbar
Bold text
Bold text
 Bold '''Bold text''' Bold text
Italic text
Italic text
 Italic ''Italic text'' Italic text
Your signature with timestamp
Your signature with timestamp
 Signature and timestamp --~~~~ Username (talk) 20:54, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
Internal link
Internal link
 Link [[Link title]] Link title
Embedded file
Embedded file
 Images and media [[File:Example.jpg|thumbnail]]
Insert a template {{Example}}
This is an example of a template. For help with templates, see Help:Template.
 Reference <ref>Insert footnote text here</ref> [1]
Syntax highlighting active
Meta has related information at: Wikitext editor syntax highlighting
MediaWiki logo
MediaWiki has documentation related to: Extension:CodeMirror
Advanced Open advanced menu See #Advanced
Special characters Open special characters menu
Help Open help menu
Cite Open cite toolbar menu See Wikipedia:RefToolbar/2.0.
Change "Source editing"
to "Visual editing"

Advanced

Advanced selections
Icon Function What it shows when editing What it shows on the page
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
Line break <br /> text before
abc
Big text <big>Big text</big> Big text
Small text <small>Small text</small> Small text
Superscript <sup>Superscript text</sup> Superscript text
Subscript <sub>Subscript text</sub> Subscript text
Picture gallery

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

  • Caption1
    Caption1
  • Caption2
    Caption2
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
Automatically redirect to another page #REDIRECT [[Target page name]] Preview a redirect page
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.

See also

Wikimedia Commons logo
Wikimedia Commons has media related to MediaWiki edit toolbar.
  1. ^ Insert footnote text here

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