Template:Edit

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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

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly error report for this template.

TemplateData for Edit

<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "label": "Page", "description": "The page to edit", "example": "Example", "type": "wiki-page-name", "default": "The current page", "suggested": true }, "2": { "label": "Label", "description": "The link label", "example": "Edit this page", "type": "string", "default": "Edit" }, "section": { "label": "Section", "description": "The section to edit; 0 for the top section; new for a new section", "example": "0", "type": "string", "default": "None (whole page gets edited)" }, "editintro": { "label": "Edit Intro", "description": "Title of a page that will be rendered above the edit box, no wikilinks, with namespace if not main", "example": "Template:Disambig editintro" }, "preload": { "label": "Preload", "description": "Title of a page to preload in the edit form when creating a new page or section" }, "preloadtitle": { "label": "Preload title", "description": "If making a new section, preload the title box with this" } }, "description": "Displays a link to edit a page.", "paramOrder": [ "1", "2", "section", "editintro", "preload", "preloadtitle" ] } </templatedata>

See also

• {{Ed}} – navbar style edit link
• {{Ed right}} – navbar style edit link aligned to right of page
• {{Edit}} – plain edit link
• {{Edit section}} – edit link aligned to right of page
• {{Navbar}} – with additional links
• {{Vedit}} – edit with the Visual Editor