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

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	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	Title of a page that will be rendered above the edit box, no wikilinks, with namespace if not main Example Template:Disambig editintro	Unknown	optional
Preload	preload	Title of a page to preload in the edit form when creating a new page or section	Unknown	optional
Preload title	preloadtitle	If making a new section, preload the title box with this	Unknown	optional

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
• {{Edit sup}} – edit link with <sup> tags
• {{Edit sub}} – edit link with <sub> tags
• {{Navbar}} – with additional links
• {{Vedit}} – edit with the Visual Editor