Visual Mode doesn't appear

I mean, I have this:

But I wanted that:

check your Preferences

I'm sorry, I can't find it anywhere on my wiki. How do I get there?

which wiki are you talking about?

Nevermind, I found it! thanks a bunch!

lol, i hope that solved your problem.

(I didn't notice that my link wasn't working)

This doesn't explain how to find the solution. I still have this problem.

Make sure the feature is turned on. You will need to go to Special:WikiFeatures on your wiki, go down to the labs section, and turn the VisualEditor on.

The VisualEditor is already ticked. I only saw visual mode a couple of times while editing(it was automatically opened in visual mode), but it has since stopped.

Is it because I'm using a iOS device while editing, because I can't seem to choose between source mode and visual mode.

When on mobile devices, you cannot use visual mode.

Here's a screenshot.

Sometime I see it in visual mode, why?

Oh, and also I can't enter a table as seen in the picture. Is this not supported on mobile devices too?

you cannot enter a table using visual editor, because there is no visual editor. you can, however, use mediawiki language and edit the table.

Thnx

I am having the same problem.

The problem is on tablet(ipad/iphone), you don't have the add table button. You need to use PC to have that button. You can add a table using tablet by writing commands(example) but it will be very complicated.

What that, the screencap, means is the editor is in *forced* Source Mode. This happens when the coding on the page is too complex for either the VE or Classic editors to handle.

As mentioned though, ensure both the wiki has VisualEditor enabled, *and* that your personal preferences has on the Editing tab the option "Enable Visual Editor (where available)" selected (if you want it) or deselected (always use Source Mode). It affects both Visual Editors.

Another note, Visual Editing is currently disabled in Internet Explorer 11 due to it being broken.

I have enabled Visual Editor and have done the same to my preferences, but I am only getting source mode on one of my wikis? Help! This is really frustrating me.

Adding a table via wikicode/wikitext is not that hard. Using the Visual Editor in its current incarnations creates some pretty ugly pages.

Here is some help on making tables in wikitext (Source mode): Help:Wikitext/table_examples.

Previously, when I clicked on "edit" for a page in a wiki I started (in February), a visual editor came up, with the source editor as an option. Now, only the source editor comes up; I've looked all over for an explanation, but haven't found one. I didn't change any preferences, and it is the same on some other wikis I looked at. Does anyone know why?

Yeah, that happened to me once. But now, it has been removed.. I think.

Do you mean the visual editor has been removed? Does anyone know how I can get it to appear again?

I really hate visual editor, but if you can't switch it on in your Preferences, then it's gone.

Otherwise, pages with heavy html can only be viewed using source editor.

No, visual editor is only visible on PCs, not tablets(iPhone, iPad, etc.)

That to^

Then how am I able to use it on my iPad?

(Using it when logged in)

I don't know how that is working. Do you mind posting a screenshot of you editing a page in Visual Mode?

The visual editor started working again on my computer; no explanation of why it didn't for a while.  If there was some problem with it that prevented it from working for the last week or so, it would have been nice to get an error message, so that I would know why it disappeared.

how do I fix this when its wont appear period

It doesn't work on mobile devices, only PCs.

However, I don't know if they have fixed it or not as I haven't been on my iPad for some time now.

no it not working on my pc, even if I set it on Visual mode.

it must be some other glitch

damn it. that's what im in

This was posted in 2013, so I don't know if that's still true. There are several free web browsers you can use. Such as Firefox and Chromium.

Hi! I'm experiencing some issues with the Visual Editor as well. It's marked as the preferred editing tool but when I click on Edit or Add, it  gets stuck on the loading screen. Tried on Chrome and Firefox. Any help?

Same here. Though only when I am using Firefox or Edge. It appears to work when I run JavaScript though.

Please create another thread for your problems. This thread was already old when someone necroposted to it 2015.