Template:Edit

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It provides a clickable link to edit a page, or a section of the page.

Usage

{{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, and new 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

Code	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 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

This 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.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Page	1	The page to edit Default The current page Example Example	Page name	suggested
Label	2	The link label Default Edit Example Edit this page	String	optional
Section	section	The section to edit; 0 for the top section; new for a new section Default None (whole page gets edited) Example 0	String	optional
Edit intro	editintro	Content that will be rendered above the edit box Example Template:Disambig editintro	Page name	optional
Preload	preload	Content to preload in the edit form when creating a new page or section Example Template:Documentation/preload	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 Default Page or section name	String	optional

Comparison

[] 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

• {{Navbox}}

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Edit/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
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