Extending Canvas

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How-to
Create menu, and controls for the canvas function in Umbraco

Chapters

• Chapter 1: Check for canvas mode
• Chapter 2: Adding a menu button to the canvas toolbar
• Chapter 3: jQuery when in canvas mode

Check for canvas mode

It is possible to extend and use the canvas functionality by code.

To check if the page is in “canvas-mode”:

if (umbraco.presentation.UmbracoContext.Current.LiveEditingContext.Enabled)
{

//…your code…

}