Help:Edit toolbar

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Editing overview

Starting a new page

Page name

Referencing

Formatting

Organizing

Fixing mistakes and vandalism

Saving effort

Communicating

Special characters

Extensions

WikiHiero syntax — warning: lots of images! (for Egyptian hieroglyphs)
EasyTimeline syntax

Frequently Asked Questions

what

In compatible browsers, an edit toolbar is automatically displayed with the edit box, provided that this has been set in the preferences. The functions are partly a typing aid, partly a reminder of required formats.

It works best with Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Firefox.

Example of how to use it:

To make a piece of text an internal link, select it and press the third button.

In Mozilla and IE you get a select click formatting, and if you click without a selection, it inserts sample text at the cursor. In other browsers, clicking on the button presents an explanation for each feature in an infobox.

If you do not want to display the toolbar, you can obtain some of the functionality of them using the ~~Edit toolbar bookmarklets~~ instead.

All of the toolbar options, and further editing options, are available in Bananeweizen's Firefox extension.

List of functions

(apart from the last two examples, these pieces of wikitext are created by typing abc, selecting it and clicking the buttons on the toolbar)

Function	What it shows when editing	What it shows on the page
Bold or strong emphasis	'''abc'''	abc
Italic or emphasis	''abc''	abc
Internal link	[[abc]]	abc
External link	[abc.com]
Section heading	== abc ==	abc [edit]
Insert image
Insert media	[[Media:abc.ogg]]	Media:abc.ogg
Mathematical formula	<math>abc</math>	$abc$
Ignore wiki formatting	<nowiki>abc '''[[Bold text]]'''</nowiki>	abc '''[[Bold text]]'''
Sign talk comments (with time stamp)	--~~~~	--Gareth Aus 22:49, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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