About
The Contextual links module gives users with the Use contextual links permission quick access to tasks associated with certain areas of pages on your site. For example, a menu displayed as a block has links to edit the menu and configure the block. For more information, see the online documentation for the Contextual Links module.
Uses
- Displaying contextual links
- Contextual links for an area on a page are displayed using a contextual links button. There are two ways to make the contextual links button visible:
- Hovering over the area of interest will temporarily make the contextual links button visible (which looks like a pencil in most themes, and is normally displayed in the upper right corner of the area). The icon typically looks like this:
- If you have the Toolbar module installed, clicking the contextual links button in the toolbar (which looks like a pencil) will make all contextual links buttons on the page visible. Clicking this button again will toggle them to invisible.
- Hovering over the area of interest will temporarily make the contextual links button visible (which looks like a pencil in most themes, and is normally displayed in the upper right corner of the area). The icon typically looks like this: