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It provides a clickable link to edit a page, or a section of the page.
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0 for the top (i.e. lead section), 1 for the first (sub-)section, and new for adding a new section.|section=new), the title to be preloaded into the title box of the edit form.Notes:
| Code | Output | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| {{edit}} | edit | Edit current page |
| {{edit| |edit template doc}} | edit template doc | |
| {{edit|1=Infobox foo|2=E}} | E | |
| {{edit|2=edit template doc}} | edit template doc | |
| {{edit|friendship}} | edit | Edit the article friendship |
| {{edit|friendship|section=3}} | edit | Edit the third order of a (sub-)section of the article friendship, which is 1.2 Adolescence as of 10 Jan 2020 |
| {{edit|Draft:Sandbox|editintro=Template:Disambig editintro}} | edit | Load {{Disambig editintro}} when you edit |
| {{edit|Template:Some new template|preload=Template:Documentation/preload}} | edit | 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}} | [1] | Create a new section of a custom title |
| {{edit|2=link with tooltip|tooltip=This is a tooltip}} | edit | Hover over the link to see the tooltip |
TemplateData for Edit
Displays a link to edit a page.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page | 1 | The page to edit
| Page name | suggested |
| Label | 2 | The link label
| String | optional |
| Section | section | The section to edit; 0 for the top section; new for a new section
| String | optional |
| Edit intro | editintro | Content that will be rendered above the edit box
| Page name | optional |
| Preload | preload | Content to preload in the edit form when creating a new page or section
| 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
| String | optional |
Templates with view, talk and edit links: