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title: "Introduction"
manual: "Frontend Edit"
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# Introduction {#introduction}

## What does it do? {#what-it-does}

This extension adds editing tools to the frontend, allowing backend users to
edit, hide, delete, reorder and create content elements and pages without
leaving the site.

![Frontend Edit Preview](../Images/screenshot.png)

TYPO3 editors normally switch to the backend to find and change the right
content element. The extension closes that gap: a small JavaScript is injected
into the frontend, asks the backend which elements the current user may edit,
and renders the matching actions right where the content is displayed.

## Features {#features}

### Editing content elements {#editing-content-elements}

| Feature | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| [Edit Menu](../Usage/EditMenu.html#edit-menu) | Edit, hide, delete, move, info and history for every content element, with a confirmation dialog before deleting. |
| [Inline Editing](../Usage/InlineEditing.html#inline-editing) *(experimental)* | Edit content elements and page properties in a panel next to the page, without navigating to the backend. |
| [New content](../Integration/ColumnTargets.html#empty-columns) | Insert buttons on hover and per column, opening TYPO3's native New Content Element Wizard. |
| [Drag & Drop](../Usage/DragAndDrop.html#drag-and-drop) *(experimental)* | Reorder elements within a column or move them into another column of the same page, including EXT:container columns. |

### Editing pages {#editing-pages}

| Feature | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| [Toolbar](../Usage/Toolbar.html#toolbar) | Page-level actions and a toggle to switch frontend editing on and off, at one of 12 configurable positions. |
| [Save & Close](../Configuration/ExtensionConfiguration.html#extconf-enableSaveAndCloseButton) | An extra button in backend edit forms that returns straight to the frontend. |
| [Flash messages](../Configuration/SiteSettings.html#confval-frontendedit-enableflashmessages) | Backend save confirmations are shown as toast notifications in the frontend. |

### Configuration and extensibility {#configuration-and-extensibility}

| Feature | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| [Site Settings](../Configuration/SiteSettings.html#site-settings) | Per-site configuration via YAML or the site module, including filters for pages, doktypes, CTypes and UIDs. |
| [UserTSconfig](../Configuration/UserTSconfig.html#user-tsconfig) | Disable frontend editing per backend user or user group. |
| [PSR-14 Events](../DeveloperCorner/Events.html#events) | Add, remove or modify menu entries and attach custom data to elements. |
| [Render markers](../Integration/TemplateRequirements.html#render-markers) | Detect content elements without template changes (experimental). |
| [ViewHelpers](../DeveloperCorner/DataAttributes.html#data-attributes) | Edit links for related records (e.g. news items) and column markers for new-content buttons. |
| [Dark / Light mode](../Configuration/SiteSettings.html#confval-frontendedit-colorscheme) | Follows the system preference or is pinned to a fixed scheme. |

> [!NOTE]
> This is **not** a further development of the "original" extension
> [frontend_editing](https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/frontend_editing).
> It is an independent implementation with a different approach, similar in
> some ways to [feedit](https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/feedit).
> See [Delineation](../Delineation/Index.html#delineation) for a detailed comparison with related extensions
> like [visual_editor](https://github.com/FriendsOfTYPO3/visual_editor) and
> [content_preview](https://github.com/T3-UX/content_preview).

## Support {#support}

There are several ways to get support for this extension:

-   GitHub issues: [https://github.com/xima-media/xima-typo3-frontend-edit/issues](https://github.com/xima-media/xima-typo3-frontend-edit/issues)
-   [FAQ](../FAQ/Index.html#faq) — answers to the most common problems

## Security policy {#security-policy}

Please read our
[security policy](https://github.com/xima-media/xima-typo3-frontend-edit/blob/main/SECURITY.md)
if you discover a security vulnerability in this extension.

## License {#license}

This extension is licensed under
[GNU General Public License 2.0 (or later)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html).