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Activate editing mode in your WebUI to effortlessly locate and identify translation keys. Follow these steps to highlight translations and copy keys

In this article, you'll learn how to enable the editing mode in the WebUI of your product. This feature will help you easily find out the identifier of any translation key on a page.

1

Activate the editing mode

You can activate the editing mode on any page of your product WebUI: In the browser address bar, append ?showTranslateEditor=true to the page URL and press Enter.

You will see the corresponding notification at the top of the page.

Enable the editing mode
Enable the editing mode

You can switch between WebUI pages: the editing mode remains active until you disable it by clicking the Exit editing mode.

2

Copy a key

In this mode, all available translations on the page are marked with pencil icons. Note that elements not shown by default will become visible when hovered over.

Select a translation you want to edit and click the pencil icon near it to copy its key to the clipboard.

Copy the key identifier
Copy the key identifier
3

Locate the key

In WEBLATE, on the Projects page, select your project. Paste the copied key to the search field.

The category containing this key will be filtered.

Search by the key identifier
Search by the key identifier
4

Update the translation

Click the category to access the translation. The key list will be automatically filtered by the key identifier.

Now you can edit the translation. Refer to Add or modify translations for details.

Manage the translation
Manage the translation

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