Help:Editing toolbar

The editing toolbar appears above the edit/text box when using the Enhanced editor. It functions partly as a typing aid and partly as a reminder of the available functions. All the functions are available simply by typing the wikitext directly into the edit box, such as [[link]].

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 fifth button File:USApedia editing toolbar link icon.png.

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).

Basic tools

• File:USApedia editing toolbar bold icon.png (Bold): Highlight the text you wish to be bolded, and click the File:USApedia editing toolbar bold icon.png icon.
• File:USApedia editing toolbar italic icon.png (Italics): Highlight text and click File:USApedia editing toolbar italic icon.png
• File:USApedia signature icon.png (Signature - Appears only on Talk pages): This icon allows you to sign an article with your user name, time, and date.
• File:USApedia editing toolbar link icon.png - Insert link feature for adding Internal and External links:
  • To establish a link that is internal to USApedia, highlight the text and click File:USApedia editing toolbar link icon.png. This action will place double square brackets around the highlighted text. For example, the hyperlinked word, "USApedia" looks like this in Edit mode: [[USApedia]] A link will be created to the page. If there is a page with the same name as the bracketed text, the link will be blue. If the page does not exist, the link will be red. If the link is red, search for relevant keywords to see if the information exists in USApedia under a different name. If the page does not exist, click on the red link to create it.
  • To establish an external link, highlight the text to be hyperlinked, and click File:USApedia editing toolbar link icon.png. At the bottom of the screen, select "To an external web page." The highlighted text will appear in single brackets as shown here: [highlighted text]. Type the URL in the first box and the hyperlinked word in the second.

Image insert dialog box

• File:USApedia editing toolbar image icon.png (Embed file/Insert an image file): Place the cursor where you wish the file to appear and click the image icon. The file name will appear as follows: [[File:Example.jpg]]. When the page is displayed, the file will appear where it was inserted. In order to do this, the image file must first be uploaded to USApedia. A file page will be created once you upload it. Adding a File link will add the image to a page. It is preferable to link to the image rather than to upload it. This can also be used to start the Image upload wizard.
• File:USApedia editing toolbar book icon.png (Reference): To insert a reference, move the cursor where you would like to locate an in-text citation and click File:USApedia editing toolbar book icon.png.

Advanced Tools

Click on "Advanced" on the editing toolbar to see the advanced tools.

• File:USApedia advanced toolbar headings.png (Section heading): The specified number of equals signs will be inserted on each side of the highlighted text, creating a section heading of the specified level on an article. Example: ==Highlighted Text==
• File:USApedia advanced toolbar bullet icon.png (Bullets): Highlight text and select File:USApedia advanced toolbar bullet icon.png to add to a bullet list. If you click on the button without highlighting text it will add * Bullet list item.
• File:USApedia advanced toolbar numbered list icon.png (Numbered list): Highlight text and select File:USApedia advanced toolbar numbered list icon.png to add to a numbered list. If you click on the button without highlighting text it will add # Numbered list item.
• File:USApedia advanced toolbar nowiki icon.png (No wiki/display markup): This icon inserts the tag <nowiki> prior to and </nowiki> after highlighted text. This tag allows you to show markup on the displayed page. Ordinarily, markup is invisible. This is useful for presenting examples of markup on Help pages.
• File:USApedia advanced toolbar new line icon.png (New line): This icon will insert a line break without adding paragraph spacing. To start a new paragraph, just press Enter twice.
• File:USApedia advanced toolbar big text icon.png (Big text), File:USApedia advanced toolbar small text icon.png (small text), File:USApedia advanced toolbar superscript icon.png (superscript), and File:USApedia advanced toolbar subscript icon.png (subscript): Highlight the text to be modified and click the corresponding button.
• File:USApedia advanced toolbar gallery icon.png (Insert picture gallery): Click File:USApedia advanced toolbar gallery icon.png and add filenames and captions. Include additional pictures as desired.
• File:USApedia advanced toolbar redirect icon.png (Insert redirect): Click File:USApedia advanced toolbar redirect icon.png and enter the name of the page to be redirected to in the brackets.
• File:USApedia advanced toolbar table icon.png (Insert table): Click File:USApedia advanced toolbar table icon.png and enter the table size and other settings. Replace example text with your text.
• File:USApedia advanced toolbar find icon.png (Find and replace): This icon, which appears at the right edge of the toolbar, lets you search for text in the page markup and optionally replace it with other text.

Special Characters

Click "Special Characters" on the editing toolbar to add symbols and foreign language characters.

Help menu

Click "Help" on the editing toolbar for additional help on markup formats. Help:Formatting and Cheat sheet have most of this content a full page.

Find and replace

The editing toolbar has a built in find and replace.

Find and replace location on toolbar

Related

• VisualEditor