# How can I edit text while marking up?

**URL:** <https://community.labelstud.io/t/how-can-i-edit-text-while-marking-up/147>\
**Category:** Label Studio Support\
**Created:** [March 24, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/how-can-i-edit-text-while-marking-up/147 "2024-03-24T17:00:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kadenza](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.labelstud.io/kadenza/32/41_2.png) [@Kadenza](https://community.labelstud.io/u/Kadenza)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/how-can-i-edit-text-while-marking-up/147/1 "2024-03-24T17:00:02Z")

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How can I edit text while marking up?

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**Author:** ![caitlinhumansignal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.labelstud.io/caitlinhumansignal/32/82_2.png) [@caitlinhumansignal](https://community.labelstud.io/u/caitlinhumansignal)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/how-can-i-edit-text-while-marking-up/147/2 "2024-03-24T22:29:56Z")

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Hi! Do you mean like edit the text of the label, or edit the text of the source data?

You can try using the TextArea tag with `editable="true"`.

> **[Label Studio — Textarea Tag for Text areas](https://labelstud.io/tags/textarea)**
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> Customize Label Studio with the TextArea tag to support audio transcription, image captioning, and OCR tasks for machine learning and data science projects.

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**Author:** ![Kadenza](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.labelstud.io/kadenza/32/41_2.png) [@Kadenza](https://community.labelstud.io/u/Kadenza)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/how-can-i-edit-text-while-marking-up/147/3 "2024-03-25T06:21:24Z")

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Thanks for your answer, I meant - how can I edit the text in which I put marks. How can I do this during markup.

For example, like in the screenshot

 ![edit txt](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/labelstudio/original/1X/b934f2203217a8b2accd17612b5fe898342393ef.png)

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**Author:** ![caitlinhumansignal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.labelstud.io/caitlinhumansignal/32/82_2.png) [@caitlinhumansignal](https://community.labelstud.io/u/caitlinhumansignal)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/how-can-i-edit-text-while-marking-up/147/4 "2024-03-25T17:16:53Z")

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I checked, and it doesn’t look like it’s possible to edit source text as you label.

But thank you for the question!