No editing toolbar

Somehow the editing toolbar vanished and isn't visible anymore. What should I do?

The editing toolbar is built through JavaScript. This means if there is an error in the JavaScript somewhere the script will be aborted and the toolbar won't be visible. To troubleshoot this follow the following steps:

1. Obviously make sure you have JavaScript enabled and are using a recent Browser
2. Try to force a reload
   • Sometimes the Browser has a broken script in its own cache
   • Use Shift-F5 or Ctrl-F5 or what ever your browser needs to force a reload
   • Do this in the edit mode (ignoring the warning about repetitive POST data sending)
3. If you upgraded from an earlier version of DokuWiki make sure to have an up-to-date dokuwiki.php file
   • always put your changes in the local.php file
   • Undefined config values are known to break the JavaScript, so this is important! (ie: make sure $conf['usedraft'] is defined)
4. Try disabling any installed third party plugins, their JavaScript might be broken
   • After disabling do the force reload thing again
5. Try different Browsers
6. Disable the JavaScript/CSS compacting option
   • Do the force reload thing again of course
7. If you still have problems, check the JavaScript Error console of FireFox and report errors in the bug tracker
   • Make sure you have disabled the compacting option before

If you encounter problems caused by a 3rd party plugin please contact its author and ask her to fix it.