TorontoWiki Guide: Advanced Editing with the Editing Toolar

Toronto Localwiki provides authors with an advanced editing menu for making many different changes to the content within a page.  Here's what the menu looks like:

Let's look at the individual buttons and what they are used for:

  • - Bold:     Select text and click this button to make text bold
  •   - Italic:     Select text and click this button to make text italic
  •  - Underline:     Select text and click this button to make text underlined
  • - Strikethrough:     Select text and click this button to strike through text
  •  Styles:     This drop down menu can be selected to apply several predefined formats to text. The formats currently available are:
  1. Normal:     This is normal formatted text

  2. Heading 1:     This is Heading 1 formatted text.

  3. Heading 2:     This is Heading 2 formatted text.

  4. Heading 3:     This is Heading 3 formatted text.

  5. Typewriter:     This is Typewriter formatted text. (Monospaced Font)
6. Formatted:     Formatted text appears within a box like this.
  • - Link:    Select text and click this button to add a link to another page, site or URL.  For more information on linking, see the Wiki Linking Guide
  •  - Anchor:     Select text and click this button to add an internal anchor.  This allows users to link to a particular section of a page.
    • ​Click here for an example.  (Links to "More Information" below.  Link is called via the URL "#More_Information")
  • - Image:     Click on this button to insert an image into your page.  You have the option of uploading an image from your system, or of pointing to an existing image online.
  •  - Attach file:     Click on this button to attach a file to your page.  You have the option of uploading an file from your system, or of pointing to an existing file online.
  •  - Table:     Click on this button to insert a table into your page. 
  •  - Insert Horizontal Line:     Click on this button to insert a horizontal line on your page, which is used to divide sections of your document.  
  •  - Insert Object:     Click on this drop down to insert objects into your page.  An object is usually content that is more complex than a simple image or text.  The drop down currently contains three items
    1. ​Include Page:     This option will allow you to insert another full page of the wiki into this location in your page.  Useful for reusing content without having to duplicate it.
    2. Embed Media:     This option will allow you to embed media into your page.  This is usually in the form of an HTML <iframe> tag. This is how you insert videos into your pages, for example.
    3. Search Box:     This option will insert a Search Box into your page.  This search box will allow you to perform searches within the wiki for additional content.  The Search box can be pre-populated with some specified text.
  •  - Insert/Remove Numbered List:     Click on this button to insert a numbered list on your page (just like the one shown on the previous item).
  •  - Insert/Remove Bulleted List:     Click on this button to insert a bulleted list on your page (this content is organized in a bulleted list).
  •  - Text Alignment:     Select text and click on any of these buttons to change the horizontal alignment of your text.
  •  - Indentation:     Click on one of these buttons to increase or decrease the indentation of your text.
  •  - Subscript / Superscript:     Select text and click one of these two buttons to either format text as subscript or superscript. 
  •  - Remove Format:     Select text and click on this button to completely remove any previously applied formatting.
  •  - Source:     Click on this button to view and edit the HTML source of your page.  The HTML allowed is a limited subset.

More Information

Click here to go back to our page on Editing Content.  You can also jump to the main menu on our TorontoWiki Guide.

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