Template:Edit/doc

Provides a link to edit a page. This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopedic content.

Usage

{{Edit|Page|Label|section=Section|editintro=Editintro|preload=preload|preloadtitle=Preloadtitle}}

All parameters are optional

• Page: the page to edit, if not the current page
• Label: the text to label the link, defaults to "edit"
• Section: the section to edit, 0 for top section, "new" to add a new section
• Editintro: Title of a page that will be transcluded above the edit box. Not a wikilink, templates require Template:
• Preload: Title of a page to preload into the edit form if the page to be edited does not exist
• Preloadtitle: if section=new, a title to be preloaded into the title box of the edit form

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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	required
Label	2	The link label Default Edit Example Edit this page	String	optional
Section	section	The section to edit; 0 for the top section. Default None (whole page gets edited) Example 0	String	optional
editintro	editintro	no description	Unknown	optional
preload	preload	no description	Unknown	optional
preloadtitle	preloadtitle	no description	Unknown	optional

See also

[] 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