Help:WikiEditor

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.

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

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.)

List of functions

Icon

Function

What it shows when editing

What it shows on the page

Bold

'''abc'''

abc

Italic

''abc''

abc

Internal link

[[abc]]

abc

External link

[http://www.example.com]

[1]

Insert image

[[File:Example.jpg]]

Ignore wiki formatting

<nowiki>abc '''[[Bold text]]'''</nowiki>

abc '''[[Bold text]]'''

Sign talk comments (with time stamp)

~~~~

Username (talk) 03:06, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Automatically redirect to another page

#REDIRECT [[Americana]]

Preview a redirect page

Standard line break

text before<br />abc

text before
abc

Superscript (math: index notation)

<sup>abc</sup>

other text^abc

Subscript (chemical formulas)

<sub>abc</sub>

other text_abc

Smaller text

<small>abc</small>

other text abc

Picture gallery

<gallery>
File:Salmonlarvakils.jpg
File:Georgia Aquarium - Giant Grouper.jpg
</gallery>

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Insert table

{| class="wikitable"
! Name !! Description
|-
| [[w:Widget|Widget]] || ''Great'' thing
|-
| [[w:Gadget|Gadget]] || Even '''better'''
|}

Name	Description
Widget	Great thing
Gadget	Even better

Insert a reference (citation footnote)

99% of all widgets are cool.<ref>This is the footnote text.</ref> More text.

99% of all widgets are cool.^[1] More text.

(At footer of page:)

1. This is the footnote text.

Enhancements

Icon	Function	Description
	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

• w:Wikipedia:RefToolbar/2.0
• w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Toolbar (Firefox only)