In compatible browsers, an edit toolbar can be automatically displayed with the edit box, provided that this has been set in the preferences) – 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 .

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

Advanced

See also

• Wikipedia:RefToolbar/2.0

• Wikipedia Sandbox