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It provides a clickable link to edit a page, or a section of the page.
Usage
edit{{Edit |1= |2= |section= |editintro= |preload= |preloadtitle= |tooltip= }}
- 1: the page to edit. If omitted, it will be the current page.
- 2: the label text of the edit link. If omitted, it is "edit" by default.
- section: the section to edit, in which
0
for the top (i.e. lead section),1
for the first (sub-)section, andnew
for adding a new section. - editintro: the content of a page/template that will be transcluded above the edit box when you edit the page. Usually used to load template messages.
- preload: the content of a page/template that will be preloaded into the text area of the edit form. It works only if the page to be edited does not exist.
- preloadtitle: if making a new section (i.e.
|section=new
), the title to be preloaded into the title box of the edit form. - tooltip: the text to display when you hover over the link.
Notes:
- All parameters are optional.
- The parameter names must be in lowercase or they will fail.
Examples
editCode | Output | Notes |
---|---|---|
{{edit}} | Edit current page | |
{{edit| |edit template doc}} | ||
{{edit|1=Infobox foo|2=E}} | ||
{{edit|2=edit template doc}} | ||
{{edit|friendship}} | Edit the article friendship | |
{{edit|friendship|section=3}} | Edit the third order of a (sub-)section of the article friendship, which is 1.2 Adolescence as of 10 Jan 2020 | |
{{edit|Draft:Sandbox|editintro=Template:Disambig editintro}} | Load {{Disambig editintro}} when you edit | |
{{edit|Template:Some new template|preload=Template:Documentation/preload}} | Preload the whoole content of {{Documentation/preload}} when you create a new template | |
{{edit|Wikipedia talk:Sandbox|section=new||preloadtitle=Custom title of the new section}} | Create a new section of a custom title | |
{{edit|2=link with tooltip|tooltip=This is a tooltip}} | Hover over the link to see the tooltip |
TemplateData
editThis is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Edit in articles based on its TemplateData.
TemplateData for Edit
Displays a link to edit a page.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Page | 1 | The page to edit
| Page name | suggested |
Label | 2 | The link label
| String | optional |
Section | section | The section to edit; 0 for the top section; new for a new section
| String | optional |
Edit intro | editintro | Content that will be rendered above the edit box
| Page name | optional |
Preload | preload | Content to preload in the edit form when creating a new page or section
| Page name | optional |
Preload title | preloadtitle | If making a new section, preload text into the title box | String | optional |
Tooltip | tooltip | Text to display on mouseover
| String | optional |
Comparison
edit[
] Compare different edit templates:- {{Ed}} — plain-style edit link surrounded by <small> tags, specifically for templates only
- {{Ed right}} — plain-style edit link surrounded by <small> tags and aligned to right of page, specifically for templates only
- {{Edit}} — plain-style edit link, applicable to all Wikipedia namespaces
- {{Edit section}} — edit link surrounded by <div> tags by default which can specify which section to edit on a page, applicable to all Wikipedia namespaces
- {{Vedit}} — plain-style edit link which edit with the Wikipedia:VisualEditor, applicable to all Wikipedia namespaces
Templates with view, talk and edit links:
- {{Navbar}} — navigation bar with configurable caption and view·talk·edit links, specifically for templates only
- {{View}} — navbar-style view·talk·edit links, specifically for templates only
- {{VTE}} & {{V}} — navbar-style V·T·E links (i.e. view·talk·edit links in short forms), specifically for templates only
See also
edit- {{Navbox}}