VisualEditor/Single edit tab





How many Edit tabs do you want? It's your choice.

The single edit tab project will simplify the user interface for most editors by giving them only one edit tab, rather than the current two, and to have that edit tab lead to the editing system that the contributor prefers.

The visual editor is a rich-text editor for MediaWiki. With this enabled, it is possible to use either the visual editor or the wikitext editor to change most pages. Since 2013, these editing systems have been accessed by displaying two edit tabs on each Wikipedia article or other wiki page.

Requirements
You must have access to the visual editor enabled to see this or to set your preferences. You will not see these options if any of the following are true:
 * You have disabled access to the visual editor in your account's preferences.
 * You are using the mobile website.
 * Your current computer or web browser does not support the visual editor (e.g., because Javascript is disabled).
 * You are logged out while editing a wiki that does not give IP editors direct access to the visual editor (e.g., the English Wikipedia, Meta, and most non-Wikipedia sister projects).

What it will look like if you're logged out
IPs at some wikis will start in the visual editor, unless they switch; IPs at other wikis will start in the wikitext editor, unless they switch.

If IPs at that wiki begin in the visual editor, then the Welcome screen will offer them the ability to immediately switch to the wikitext editor, and the system will remember that (until cookies are cleared).

How to use both
See Help:VisualEditor/User guide