Help:Rich text editor

Beta

Welcome to Wikia's new rich text editor, currently in heavy development.

Currently, almost all formatting can be done via the editor, including images and templates. If there are important abilities missing please let us know.

What does this editor do?
The editor allows you to use a "word-processor" type toolbar to format an article in the following ways without any wikimarkup:
 * Basic formatting - including bold, italic and strikethrough
 * Lists, with bullet points or with numbers
 * Links, including both interwiki and external links
 * Images, using the Help:Add Images editor
 * Tables
 * Templates, with built-in template selector and editor
 * Edit categories via CategorySelect (new)

When in the default mode, the article will appear in the edit box almost exactly as it will on the saved page, like an instant preview. Users can also switch to "source" mode to view and edit the article using wikimarkup. To get to this mode, click the "Source" button on the far left of the toolbar.

To edit existing images, tables and templates:
 * Images - hover over the image and click "edit"
 * Tables - right-click on the table
 * Templates - click on the grey square containing the name of the template

Finally, you can expand the editor to fill the entire screen by clicking the blue button at the right-side of the toolbar.

What does this editor not do?
The editor is active for articles, user pages, and image description pages. All other pages (including all talk pages) will use the old editor for now.

You can view, but not directly edit, templates and parser functions. These elements will still appear in edit mode but will marked by a grey background. To edit these elements, simply click on the greyed out area - this will pop up an editor for you to use.

To add categories and references, you must switch to source mode.

In a few specific cases (see list below), the new editor cannot be turned on at all. In these cases, the old editor will be used. This will happen if:
 * There are HTML comments in the text.
 * The special word  has been used.

How do I turn off the new editor

 * To disable this editor for yourself, go to Special:Preferences and select the "Editing" tab. Tick the option to "Disable Rich Text Editing".
 * To disable the new editor for a single article you can use the special word

Feedback
If you have feedback about the new editor, please visit the Central Forums or email [mailto:community@wikia.com community@wikia.com].