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Editable Regions

Creating editable regions

Editable template regions control which areas of a template-based page can be edited.

You can mark an entire table or an individual table cell as editable, but you can’t mark multiple table cells as a single editable region. If <td> is selected the editable region includes the region around the cell; if not, the editable region affects content inside the cell.

Layers and layer content are separate elements; making a layer editable lets you change the position of the layer as well as its contents, and making a layer’s contents editable lets you change only the content of the layer, not its position.

To select the layer’s content, click in the layer and choose Edit > Select All. To select the layer, make sure invisible elements are showing, and click the icon that represents the location of the layer.

Inserting an editable region

Before you insert an editable region, you should save the document you are working in as a template. If you insert an editable region in a document rather than a template file, Dreamweaver warns you that the document will automatically be saved as a template.

To define an editable template region:

1. In the Document window, do one of the following to select the region:
   
   • Select the text or content that you want to set as an editable region.
   • Place the insertion point where you want to insert an editable region.
     
     
2. Do one of the following to insert an editable region:
   
   • Choose Insert > Template Objects > New Editable Region.
   • Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the selected text or object, and choose New Editable Region from the context menu.
   • In the Insert bar, select Templates, then click the Editable Region button.
     
     The Editable Region dialog box appears.
     
     
3. In the Name text box, enter a unique name for the region. (You cannot use the same name for more than one editable region in a particular template.)
   
   Note: Do not use special characters in the Name field.
   
   
4. Click OK.
   
   The editable region is enclosed in a highlighted rectangular outline in the template, using the highlighting color that is set in preferences.
   
   
5. A tab at the upper-left corner of the region shows the name of the region. If you inserted an empty editable region in the document, the name of the region also appears inside the region.
   

Removing an editable region

If you’ve marked a region of your template file as editable and you want to lock it (make it noneditable) again, use the Remove Template Markup command.

Note: You can’t lock a region in a file based on a template; you can lock a region only in a template file.

To remove an editable region:

1. In the document or in the tag selector, select the editable region you want to change.
2. Choose Modify > Templates > Remove Template Markup.
   

The region is now no longer editable.

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