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title: "Toolbar buttons and menu items for the Comments plugin"
description: "Details of the toolbar buttons and menu items provided for the Comments plugin."
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Important This page documents TinyMCE 7. For new projects, Tiny recommends using the latest, most up-to-date version. [See TinyMCE 8 documentation](../../latest/comments-toolbars-menus/).
# Toolbar buttons and menu items for the Comments plugin

## Toolbar buttons

The Comments plugin provides the following toolbar buttons:

| Toolbar button identifier | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `addcomment` | Adds a comment at the cursor location or to the selected content. |
| `showcomments` | Shows/hides the Comments sidebar UI and comments present in the editor. |

These toolbar buttons can be added to the editor using:

- The [`toolbar`](../toolbar-configuration-options/#toolbar) configuration option.
- The [`quickbars_insert_toolbar`](../quickbars/#quickbars_insert_toolbar) configuration option.
- [Custom Context toolbars](../contexttoolbar/).

## Menu items

The Comments plugin provides the following menu items:

| Menu item identifier | [Default Menu Location](../menus-configuration-options/#example-the-tinymce-default-menu-items) | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `addcomment` | Insert | Adds a comment at the cursor location or to the selected content. |
| `deleteallconversations` | File | Deletes all comments from the editor. |
| `showcomments` | View | Shows/hides comments present in the editor. |

These menu items can be added to the editor using:

- The [`menu`](../menus-configuration-options/#menu) configuration option.
- The [`contextmenu`](../menus-configuration-options/#contextmenu) configuration option.
- [Custom Menu toolbar buttons](../custom-menu-toolbar-button/).