The Edit Tab

The Edit tab takes you into an edit screen where you can modify the text of a page, and other information (called metadata) associated with web content.

In the example below, we see the Edit tab for an article that has been added into one of the Dermatology Texts.  You'll notice the Editor here has the ability to change the Article Title and Author, to flag whether it will appear on the Library Home page as a Featured Article, to flag whether contributions to this article would be welcome, etc.

At the very bottom of the screen shot, you'll notice the top toolbar of the "visual editor" that allows you to enter and format page content using WYSIWYG controls.

Note: There are several visual editors available for use with the system.  They are highly browser-dependent and are customizable on a user-by-user basis (in the Profile), so what you see may vary slightly from what you see in this tutorial's screenshots.

All of the visual editors have some way to toggle from WYSIWYG mode (where you can use toolbar icons to format bold text, list items, etc.) and HTML mode (for advanced users) where you can control the actual codes that format text and images.

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