Can a div be an editable region in a template?

This is my first attempt to work with templates. I have a main area in the center of the page where I want to be able to adjust font-size, and perhaps other text properties. I use a div called "textbox" I set it up as an editable region, but every time I try to change font-size, I am told that this is an uneditable region and the change will be discarded. Here is the code in my program:

    <div id ="textbox">
      <p>Here is some text in the box</p>
      <p> </p>
    </div>
    
Any suggestions?

Okay - all is well. Yet again I find myself spend as much or more time in Code view, than Design view. With the cursor inbetween a couple of divs, I could make it editable. I found in a couple of cases the editable region was stuck in an odd random place in the page - Code view helped me figure it out.
<div id="mainContent">

/* all the below is editable */
<div id="featureBox1"><h3>Feature box one</h3>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio.</p>
    </div><div id="featureBox2"><h3>Feature box two</h3>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio.</p>
    </div>
/* all the above is editable */

</div>

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> When I have an Editable Region in a template and want to
remove it, and
> from
> all child-pages, what to do[mx 2004] ? The below code if
is in logout.php
> how
> is get included in a file ?
>
> I use:
> 
> but isset($_SESSION["email"] does not working .... well
>
> [code]<?php
> if (isset($_SESSION["email"])) {
> ?>
> <link href="/css-styles.css" rel="stylesheet"
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> ?>
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>
>
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forum. My
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regions, and some
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includes.
> I can only assume either that he had a bad experience on
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> Damascus,
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> "Templates are wicked and sinful! Don't play with them,
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>>I'm trying to remove an editable region from a nested
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>>
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>>info, etc), so I'd like to create a nested template
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>>where
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>
> Very simple:
>
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>
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reliability
> problems.
>
> I cannot understand why Murray has such a bad attitude
to nested
> templates. I
> can only assume either that he had a bad experience on
the road to
> Damascus,
> after writing his definitive book on templates, or that
it says simply:
>
> "Templates are wicked and sinful! Don't play with them,
or you will go
> blind!"
>
>
> Clancy

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// BeginOAWidget_Instance_2127022: #gallery
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"suddensurprise" <[email protected]> wrote
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> Murray 'ACE' wanted to understand why I am using nested
templates.
>
Primary
> Template or 'base layout' I have a primary template
which establishes
> the
> top, left and bottom borders for the site. These contain
Spry menus - if
> I
> change the menu on the primary template, all pages will
be updated. The
> primary template has a 'work area box' which is where
the page content
> goes for
> each different page.
Secondary or 'nested' template Next I have a
> secondary template, or nested template. It starts with
the primary
> template
> but this time the 'work area box' is set up with a
product table and
> various
> fixed column headings. The table is filled from
different database
> records
> using PHP and MySQL. Therefore the secondary or 'nested'
template
> establishes
> a common format for the product table. For example, a
change to a heading
> in
> the secondary template is updated into all pages using
it. And to
> reiterate, a
> change to the Spry menu bar on the primary template will
update the
> secondary
> template and all pages created from that template.
Similarly, I have
> several
> other secondary templates, all created from the primary
template, all
> setting
> standard sections of the website so that multiple pages
can be updated at
> once
> via a single template change.
Note: the code in the secondary
> template
> needs to be 'locked' so that edits within it are passed
on to its slave
> pages.
> This is done by creating an empty Editable region at the
beginning of the
> 'work
> area box' I talked about.
Other Approaches? If anyone knows a
> better
> way of enabling site edits to be passed consistently
down into different
> standard-section blocks of the website, I would welcome
your input.
>
The
> Problem Now to reiterate the problem with which I
started this thread.
> In
> a secondary template it works fine creating a second
Editable Region
> within the
> Body of the HTML document - the rest of the code in that
'primary template
> editable region' is now locked out as is required.
However, I have an
> Editable
> region with the HTML Head area, and DW does not permit
me to add a
> 'secondary-template Editable Region' within it to lock
it down. I am
> wondering
> if anyone in the Community knows why or can suggest a
solution. Regards
> Richard
>

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<li id="nav_do"><a href="/whatwedo.asp"> Who We Are</a></li>
<li id="nav_cabout"><a href="/consumers/login.asp">Current Consumers</a></li>
<li id="nav_pabout"><a href="/pa/about.asp">Current PAs</a></li>
<li id="nav_cal"><a href="http://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/calendar.php?crd=cdchoices&" target="_blank">Calendar</a></li>
<li id="nav_pro"><a href="/profiles/profiles.asp">Profiles</a></li>
<li id="nav_news"><a href="/news.asp">CDC in the News</a> </li>
<li id="nav_lnk"><a href="/links.asp">Links</a></li>
<li id="nav_blank"><a href="/message.asp"> Message from CEO</a></li>
 <a name="submenu" id="MainContent2"></a>
<li class="c2">
<div ice:editable="css_styles,media,hyperlink">
OptionalMenuPicture
</div>

</ul>

Use this:
<ul id="navleft">
<li id="nav_hom"><a href="/index.asp">Home</a></li>
<li id="nav_do"><a href="/whatwedo.asp"> Who We Are</a></li>
<li id="nav_cabout"><a href="/consumers/login.asp">Current Consumers</a></li>
<li id="nav_pabout"><a href="/pa/about.asp">Current PAs</a></li>
<li id="nav_cal"><a href="http://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/calendar.php?crd=cdchoices&" target="_blank">Calendar</a></li>
<li id="nav_pro"><a href="/profiles/profiles.asp">Profiles</a></li>
<li id="nav_news"><a href="/news.asp">CDC in the News</a> </li>
<li id="nav_lnk"><a href="/links.asp">Links</a></li>
<li id="nav_blank"><a href="/message.asp"> Message from CEO</a></li>

<div ice:editable="css_styles,media,hyperlink">
<img src="/images/smallpics/cl_07_2425.jpg" width="170" height="174" alt="Constance Laymon, executive director, Consumer Directed Choices"><br><ul id="navoptional">
New? Learn More:
<li><a href="/pgms.asp">&gt Potential Consumers</a></li>
<li><a href="/empopps.asp">&gt Potential Personal Assistants</a></li>
<li><a href="/srchsite.asp">&gt Search site</a></li>
</ul>

</div>
<li><img src="/images/smallpics/staff_20081.jpg" alt="Staff 2008 picnic, welcome!" width="170" height="118"><br></li>

</ul>

Can't Delete Non-Editable Region in Template?

Well, I can in existing templates but if I create a new one from an existing page using "Save as Template", when I try to delete a non-editable region in the template, DW won't let me. I don't know why. Aaaargh!
It's my understanding I should be able to edit anything in a template. I've tried existing DW and restarting. I've tried using other pages as a basis for the template. Every template I create won't let me delete non-editable regions. I'm highlighting the non-editable region and pressing the delete key. I can't delete.

burro_mail wrote:
Not sure DW is doing what you describe...
But I am certain you could remove the region in code view.
Even if you are a WYSIWYG-er and not a big code-head, it should be pretty easy to remove the region markers and everything between them...
Trust me, it is. I'm wondering if the problem is associated with the fact that the source page that I saved as a template was based on a template? I just noticed that this new template refers to another template. I'm thinking that means the other template is controlling what I'm trying to do in the current template.
That's it. I just tried saving a template under a different name (still retaining the correct template file extension) but did not do the save as template. Now I can completely edit that template. So you if you save a page that is controled by a template, as a template, that new template is controlled by the previous template.
I've got a headache now.

After inserting editable regions, DW CS3 tells me none exist...?

I am having muliple problems with templates on this particular project, that I have never seen before. I was going to break them into multiple
questions, per the instructions here at the forum, but all of these relate to the same template code, which I will post below, so I think it would be
more efficient to include the related questions in this thread.
Background
I created this template by first scraping the client's existing site, which is a dynamic CMS site, with HTTrack. Secondly, I opened the HTML file generated by that processs, and saved it as a template in my DW project, which automatically assigned it to the "Templates" folder, and is accessable via the "Assets" panel (usual stuff.)
The reason for starting with a scraped version of existing is that this project involves moving the site off of the CMS platform and into HTML/CMS, yet preserving essentially the same design.
1. The most obvious problem I have is that in the subject line: after adding a couple of editable regions to my template,
when I save/preview, an error message comes up saying "your template has no editable regions, do you want to proceed?"
2. In doing the save as template operation, I am prompted with "Update links?" and I do. When I open the template, all looks good in DW, however as soon as I do a preview, I get a completely raw html page with NO css styling, no images, no fonts, etc. Conversely, if I do the same step, yet choose not to update links when prompted, then I get a template that looks completely bare in DW (no styling, no images, etc.) yet looks fine when previewed...?
Additionally, one other thing I tried was doing the save as template, choosing not to update links, and then moving it out of the templates folder into the main project folder - Here, it both looks fine in DW, and previews, yet I am unable to use it as a template (does not appear in assets, cannot use "create new from" or "apply", etc.)
I have also tried changing from "site root" to "document" in terms of linking, yet nothing has worked. Every time I have created a template on other projects, all has just worked fine from the start, so I am really stumped here.
The project will have too many pages to not use a template for updates, so I am hopeful that I can figure out what is causing this. Following is my template code:
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<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="top" align="Left" class="text">We know you have many options when it comes to storing your organization's records and information. You may choose to store them on-site in your own storeroom, in a mini-storage (self storage) unit, with a moving and storage company or with a full-service records management company like Records Management Center. There are, however, major differences not only in the storage options available, but in the companies that provide them as well. Please take some time to review our website and familiarize yourself with your records management options, so that you can make the choice that's right for your organization.</td>
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There are (or can be), of course, editable regions in the head of a document. Typically, around the <title></title> you will find 'space' to put links etc, and meta tags:

<title> Your title here </title>
<meta name="description" content="Description here." />
<meta name="keywords" content="keywords here " />
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />

Further down in this same document, I find:

<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script src="../Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

showing a stylesheet link and an embedded style.
So it's not so much that you can't have editable areas in the head of the document, it's more that you can't overlap or improperly nest ANYTHING.
You can also (am I repeating myself?) make a tag's attributes editable. I use that feature most notably for applying different IDs to <body> tags for different neighborhoods in my sites. By applying different body IDs, I can control more specifically elements on those pages. But that's a conversation for another time!
Best,
Beth

Editable region but not in code view

EDIT: While cooking dinner I thought that the computer "fixes" itself when it reboots what about Dreamweaver? I closed DW down. Reopened the app and voila. I CAN edit that section in code view now. It's weird but it appears to be working. I'll repost if something is amiss again regarding this issue. I'll leave the post up in case it's helpful to anyone else. thanks.
I have new pages made from a template. I can only edit in design view NOT in code view. I get the standard error of I'm trying to edit where I'm not allowed. I've made templates many times but never had this problem (I don't think!). Does someone have a tip or help for me? In addition to this issue I was not able to change the title of the page until I added the editable region in the template for title line. That's always been default editable before. Thanks a lot. I'm using DW8.
begining code from template:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Party Invitation Boutique</title> 
begining code from new pages:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Baby Blue</title> 
-------------then further down on the page is the editable region-------------

<div id="content_right">test only can type in design view. can't add div boxes
even in this editable region. ugh. can't even type next this this text in the
code view. </div>


Best thing you can do in the future is run your code through the validator if the editable region exists:
http://validator.w3.org/
If there are code errors with other tags on the page then it is possible DW is overlooking its own template code. Unfortunately without seeing the whole page I cannot say this is definitely the case, but a likely possibility.

Modifying a template resulted in all child pages with repeating editable regions - Help !

Good morning,
I have recently been appointed to update a website designed in Dreamweaver by an employee who is no longer here. I have read books on the software and practiced an insane amount which permitted me to update child pages, links, documents etc... however:
I was asked to add a new button to an "non-editable" region of a template. Trying to do so resulted in a massive mess (with massive anxiety).
Even thou the new template had all the same text and editable regions, all my pages look completely different from the template itself. The editable regions appears 2-3 times in different locations ex: Header is showed on the bottom, top etc... and the Editable region titles (EditableRegion1 etc...) repeat themselves as well.
I really need help and not sure what to do, I have tried everything and I am only making it worse and worse. All I want/need is for all my html pages created with this template, match the template.
Please note that this site is local, not online.
Since I noticed on other threads that the code is needed; here it is:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>QMS: AFM</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<link href="file:///U|/AFM/Dreamweaver/Left sidebar.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body link="#006699" class="twoColElsLtHdr">
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
    <h1><img src="file:///P|/RPS/AFMS/Quality Management System/QMS Site/HTML/Graphics/menubar/pwgsc-e.gif" width="364" height="33" align="left" alt="wordmark" /><img src="file:///P|/RPS/AFMS/Quality Management System/QMS Site/HTML/Graphics/menubar/wordmark_canada.gif" width="83" height="21" align="right" alt="wordmark2" /></h1>
    <p> </p>
    <p><img src="file:///P|/RPS/AFMS/Quality Management System/QMS Site/HTML/Graphics/menubar/AFM QMS banner.jpg" width="709" height="80" alt="banner" border="0"/><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><img src="file:///P|/RPS/AFMS/Quality Management System/QMS Site/HTML/Graphics/menubar/Contactus-e.JPG" width="110" height="21" alt="contactus-e" border="0" /></a><img src="file:///P|/RPS/AFMS/Quality Management System/QMS Site/HTML/Graphics/menubar/French-e.JPG" width="115" height="21" alt="french-e" border="0" /> <a href="file:///P|/RPS/AFMS/Quality Management System/QMS Site/HTML/Continual Improvement/QMSTeamMembers-e.html"><img src="file:///P|/RPS/AFMS/Quality Management System/QMS Site/HTML/Graphics/menubar/Help-e.JPG" width="115" height="21" alt="help-e" border="0" /> <img src="file:///P|/RPS/AFMS/Quality Management System/QMS Site/HTML/Graphics/menubar/Search-e.JPG" width="115" height="21" alt="search-e" border="0" /></a><a href="http://source.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca"><img src="file:///P|/RPS/AFMS/Quality Management System/QMS Site/HTML/Graphics/menubar/thesource.jpg" width="120" height="21" alt="TheSource" border="0" /> <img src="file:///P|/RPS/AFMS/Quality Management System/QMS Site/HTML/Graphics/menubar/Home-e.jpg" width="104" height="21" alt="home-e" border="0" /></a></p>
    <p> </p>
</div>
<div class="twoColElsLtHdr" id="sidebar1">
    <p><a href="../QMS HOME/QMSHome-e.html"><strong>QMS Home</strong></a></p>
    <hr />
    <p><a href="../ABOUTAFM/AboutAFM-e.html"><strong>About AFM</strong></a></p>
<hr />
<p><a href="../AdminProcedures/AdminProcedure-e.html"><strong>Administrative Procedures</strong></a></p>
<hr />
<p><a href="../BusinessUnits/BusinessUnits-e.html"><strong>Business Units</strong></a></p>
<hr />
<p><a href="../POINTSOFINTEREST/pointsofinterest-e.html"><strong>Points Of Interest</strong></a></p>
<hr />
<p><a href="../Achievements/Achievements-e.html"><strong>Achievements</strong></a></p>
<hr />
<p><strong><a href="../MeasuringPerformance/measuringperformance-e.html">Measuring Performance</a></strong></p>
<hr />
<p><a href="../References/references-e.html"><strong>References</strong></a></p>
<hr />
<p><a href="file:///P|/RPS/AFMS/Quality Management System/QMS Site/HTML/ContinualImprovement-e.html"><strong>Continual Improvement</strong> </a></p>
</div>
<div id="mainContent">
    <h2>Header</h2>
    <p>Paragraph</p>
    <h1>Sub Header </h1>
    <p> </p>
    <h1> </h1>
    <h2> </h2>
    <h1> </h1>
    <p> </p>
    <h2> </h2>
    
</div>

       <br class="clearfloat" />
</p>
<div id="footer">
    <hr width="100%" size="8" noshade="noshade" color="#006666" id="color="069"" colour="#069"/>
    <p><strong>Maintainted by: ASQM </strong></p>
    <p><strong>Date Modified: 2013-03-25</strong></p>
    
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</h3>
    
</h3>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>

I am not suprised, the previous employee tried to recreate the English version of the site in another folder structure and did not change all links and was still using a template in the wrong location.
I think I created the mess by trying to modify the existing template's non-editable region in order to add a new button. When trying to update all the pages, the fiasco started.
Do you think the best option would be to create a new template in the correct folder structure and apply it? Would it fix the current pages or will I have to fix them all manualy on by one?
I understand it is difficult to deal with a newbie of my magnitude and thanks again.

Template changes in editable region do not propagate to child pages??

I have a website that was created using Dreamweaver CS4. I have copied the directory onto a machine running CS6 and set it up as a new site in DW. I want to make a change in the editable region of a template that feeds all the pages. However, when I make the change it appears to go through the motion of propagating the change across all the pages, but in fact - when checking 'detail' of the process - all it seems to be doing is identifying the child pages but not updating them. No changes occur. Any ideas? I did not have this problem previously, as far as I remember.
Code snippet follows. I'm trying to add the phone number shown in BOLD below.
Thanks for any help!!
John
<body class="twoColFixLtHdr">
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
    <h1><img src="../Graphics/TCMG Banner_Small3.jpg" alt="" name="Banner_Small" width="1000" height="100" border="0" usemap="#Banner_SmallMap" id="Banner_Small" />
      <map name="Banner_SmallMap" id="Banner_SmallMap">
        <area shape="rect" coords="0,-6,103,97" href="/index.html" alt="Home" />
      </map>
    </h1>
    
</div>

<div id="sidebar1">
<h3 class="Sidebar_Phone">OFC: +1 (704) 944-XXXX</h3>
<h3 class="Sidebar_Phone"><strong>CELL: +1 (305) 283-XXXX</strong></h3>
<hr />
<h3 class="Sidebar_Title">Sidebar1 Content</h3>
<ul>
    <li class="MainContent_Text">The background color on this div will only show for the length of the content. If you'd like a dividing line instead, place a border on the left side of the #mainContent div if it will always contain more content. </li>
    <li class="MainContent_Text">Donec eu mi sed turpis feugiat feugiat. Integer turpis arcu, pellentesque eget, cursus et, fermentum ut, sapien. Fusce metus mi, eleifend sollicitudin, molestie id, varius et, nibh. Donec nec libero.</li>
</ul>

</div>


Correct Ken.
The content in editable regions of a DW Template are editable on a page by page basis in all child pages. Any content in an editable region in a Template will not propagate to child pages.
Anything in a non-editable region of a Template can only be edited in the DW Template and those changes will propagate to child pages when the Template is saved.

Can a div be an editable region in a template?

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