---
title: Editing documents and pages
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages/creating-new-documents-and-pages.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/configuring-the-environment-for-content-editors/enabling-on-site-editing.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

There are two main differences between editing documents and pages in Kentico:

- In the **Pages** application, you mainly edit the content of documents on the **Form** tab.
- In the **Pages** application, you mainly edit the content of pages on the **Page** tab.

In this topic, you can learn about:

## Editing pages in the Pages application

1. Open the **Pages** application.
2. In Content tree, click on the page that you want to edit.

   ![Selecting page](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/editing-documents-and-pages/selecting_page.png)
3. Make sure you are on the **Page** tab.
4. Click into an editable region.

   ![Editing page](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/editing-documents-and-pages/editing_page.png)
5. Use [the editor](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages/editing-documents-and-pages/using-the-editor.md) to make changes in the editable region.
6. **Save** the changes that you made.

The system reloads the page to display the updated content. You can now preview  the changes that you made to the page.

### To preview the changes that you made to the page

You can preview how the changed page looks by switching to the **Preview** view mode.

The **Preview** mode allows you to see how the page looks even if it hasn't been published yet. That is, you always see the last version of the page.

![Switching to preview](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/editing-documents-and-pages/switching_to_preview.png)

**Live site** allows you to see the page the way site visitors currently see it. Note, however, that **Live site** doesn't have to show the latest version of the page that you edited. For example, when the latest version of the page hasn't been published yet. To open Live site, use the **Live site** button in the [Applicationlist](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/using-the-kentico-interface.md).

## Editing pages on the Live site

1. Log on to the live site.
2. Click on **Edit page** in the top left corner.

   ![Edit page onsite](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/editing-documents-and-pages/edit_page_onsite.png)
3. Navigate to the page that you want to edit.
4. Move your mouse over the section of the page that you want to edit. The system automatically highlights the editable regions as you move your mouse over them.

   > **Tip:** You can use the **Highlight** action on the on-site editing toolbar above the page. The button makes all editable items placed on the page visible at the same time. This way you can easily find all editable text regions and editable images and modify them as necessary.
5. Click on the **Edit** () button of the editable region that you want to edit. An **Edit text** dialog appears.

   ![Editing page on livesite](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/editing-documents-and-pages/editing_page_on_livesite.png)
6. Use [the editor](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages/editing-documents-and-pages/using-the-editor.md) to make changes to the text.
7. **Save** the changes that you made.

The system reloads the page to display the updated content.

## Editing documents in the Pages application

1. Open the **Pages** application.
2. In Content tree, click on the document that you want to edit.

   ![Selecting document](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/editing-documents-and-pages/selecting_document.png)
3. Switch to the **Form** tab.

   ![Editing document interface](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/editing-documents-and-pages/editing_document_interface.png)
4. Use [the editor](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages/editing-documents-and-pages/using-the-editor.md) to make changes to the document.
5. **Save** the changes that you made.

The system reloads the page to display the updated content. You can now preview the changes that you made to the document.

### To preview the changes that you made to the document

You can preview how the changed document looks by switching to the **Preview** view mode.

The **Preview** mode allows you to see how the document looks even if it hasn't been published yet. That is, you always see the last version of the document.

![Switching to preview](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/editing-documents-and-pages/switching_to_preview.png)

**Live site** allows you to see the page the way site visitors currently see it. Note, however, that **Live site** doesn't have to show the latest version of the page that you edited. For example, when the latest version of the page hasn't been published yet. To open Live site, use the **Live site** button in the [Applicationlist](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/using-the-kentico-interface.md).

## Editing documents on the Live site

1. Log on to the live site.
2. Click on **Edit page** in the top left corner.

   ![Edit page onsite](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/editing-documents-and-pages/edit_page_onsite.png)
3. Navigate to the document that you want to edit.
4. Click on the **Edit** button on the top panel. An **Edit document** dialog appears.
5. Edit the document using [the editor](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages/editing-documents-and-pages/using-the-editor.md). This editing dialog is equivalent to the one on the **Form** tab of the **Pages** application.

   ![Editing document](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/editing-documents-and-pages/editing_document.png)
6. Confirm the changes that you made by using **Save & close**.

The system reloads the page to display the updated document.

> **Info:** In many cases, document lists are configured to provide edit mode buttons, which are also visible when editing the live site. Such buttons are shown both on the list page next to individual items and when viewing the details of a specific document.
>
> The **Edit** button works the same way as the corresponding action on the main toolbar.