Title: No Toolbar with “Code Editor”?
Last modified: October 15, 2018

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# No Toolbar with “Code Editor”?

 *  [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * (@sayontan)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-toolbar-with-code-editor/)
 * It is likely that I am missing something, and if so, I am happy to be corrected.
   I cannot seem to find a toolbar at all if I switch to the “Code Editor” mode.
   Is this how it is meant to be?
 * In the Classic Editor if I click on the “Text Editor” instead of the “Visual 
   Editor” I see buttons up top to do things like adding links, or bullet lists,
   or making text bold / italicized (not the full kitchen-sink version that comes
   with TinyMCE, but a basic stripped down version like the one we see atop the 
   textarea when we create a forum support request or review here). But I see no
   equivalent when I switch to the “Code Editor”.
 * If this is intentional this is a severe design shortcoming. My guess is that 
   there is still a sizeable population that uses the “Text Editor” and not the 
   TinyMCE editor, and for them this just adds to the amount of time it takes to
   write something.

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 *  Moderator [Marius L. J.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clorith/)
 * (@clorith)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-toolbar-with-code-editor/#post-10801016)
 * Hi,
 * These have been intentionally removed at this time. The discussion around them
   can be found at [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/569](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/569)
 * It is unlikely that we will see these introduced before WordPress 5.0 is released,
   they may be introduced at a later date, but for the most part it’s now labeled
   as “Code Editor”, instead of “Text”, so I feel we’re setting expectations for
   that mode a bit higher than previously and users that utilize it may need a bit
   more knowledge of general markup if they wish to use it directly. (at least this
   is how I view it and rationalize it as to why we won’t be focusing hard on it
   before the first release, but as mentioned, this may change in the future)

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