Help:Edit toolbar
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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 Preferences → Editing → 
MediaWiki:Wikieditor-toolbar-preference.
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
| Icon | Function | What it shows when editing | What it shows on the page | ||
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| WikiEditor toolbar | |||||
| Bold | '''Bold text'''
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Bold text | |||
| Italic | ''Italic text''
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Italic text | |||
| Sign talk comments (with time stamp) |
--~~~~
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Username (talk) 06:12, 19 April 2026 (UTC) | |||
| Internal link | [[BattleTech]]
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BattleTech | |||
| Insert image | [[File:Example.jpg|thumbnail]]
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| Insert template | {{Example}}
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| Insert Reference | <ref>Insert footnote text here</ref>
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[1] | |||
| File:OOjs UI icon next-ltr.svg Advanced | Open advanced menu | See below. | |||
| File:OOjs UI icon next-ltr.svg Special characters | Open special characters menu | See below. | |||
| File:OOjs UI icon next-ltr.svg Help | Open help menu | See below. | |||
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| Advanced toolbar | ||||||||||||
| Enhanced toolbar- Heading toolbar | Section heading | <poem>== Heading text ==
=== Heading text ===
==== Heading text ====
===== Heading text =====</poem>
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| Bulleted list | Bulleted list | * Bulleted list item
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| Numbered list | Numbered list | # Numbered list item
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| Ignore wiki formatting | Nowiki: Ignore wiki formatting | <nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>
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Insert non-formatted text here | |||||||||
| File:OOjs UI icon newline-ltr.svg | Line break | <br />
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text before abc | |||||||||
| File:OOjs UI icon bigger-ltr.svg | Big text | <big>Big text</big>
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Big text | |||||||||
| File:OOjs UI icon smaller-ltr.svg | Small text | <small>Small text</small>
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Small text | |||||||||
| File:OOjs UI icon superscript-ltr.svg | Superscript | <sup>Superscript text</sup>
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Superscript text | |||||||||
| File:OOjs UI icon subscript-ltr.svg | Subscript | <sub>Subscript text</sub>
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Subscript text | |||||||||
| File:OOjs UI icon imageGallery-ltr.svg | Picture gallery | <poem><gallery>
Example.jpg|Caption1
Example.jpg|Caption2
</gallery></poem>
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| File:OOjs UI icon table.svg | Table | <poem>{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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! header 1
! header 2
! header 3
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| row 1, cell 1
| row 1, cell 2
| row 1, cell 3
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| row 2, cell 1
| row 2, cell 2
| row 2, cell 3
|}
</poem>
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| File:OOjs UI icon articleRedirect-ltr.svg | Automatically redirect to another page | #REDIRECT [[Target page name]]
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