Can't Edit Template

About a week ago I created a template and have made edits to
it on several occasions. However, while working with the template
today, I suddenly couldn't access any portion of the template that
was not an "editable area". In other words, the template started
acting like an html page that was created from the template. I
double checked to see that it was the dwt file and not an html...it
was the template. Any ideas what happened and how I correct this?
BTW, I'm very new to this and have been using Dreamweaver for
about six weeks.
Coryan
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"JimCoryan" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> About a week ago I created a template and have made
edits to it on several
> occasions. However, while working with the template
today, I suddenly
> couldn't
> access any portion of the template that was not an
"editable area". In
> other
> words, the template started acting like an html page
that was created from
> the
> template. I double checked to see that it was the dwt
file and not an
> html...it was the template. Any ideas what happened and
how I correct
> this?
>
> BTW, I'm very new to this and have been using
Dreamweaver for about six
> weeks.
>
> Coryan
> uturnahead.blogspot.com
> www.listonga.com
>

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even though I have not set up any non-editable regions.

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> I have a big absolutely positioned DIV tag in most of my
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> Hi,
>
> I have a big absolutely positioned DIV tag in most of my
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> practically
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> In DW CS3 design view very often (maybe 50% of all
times) if I click
> inside it
> to edit the text, DW selects the entire DIV tag. The
cursor becomes like a
> cross with arrows, the DIV border becomes outlined with
a thick blue line,
> and
> I can't edit the text no matter how much times I click.
If I move the
> mouse
> with left button pressed, this moves the DIV and changes
the .css file
> where
> the position is defined. DIV can't be de-selected with
Escape, left or
> right
> clicking.
> The only way to get out of this is to click somewhere in
the code view,
> then
> go back to design view where hopefully text can be
edited. Sometimes I
> have to
> repeat this twice or even 3 times , it's extremely
annoying and time
> consuming.
>
> Is there any workaround?
> Like to disable selection of containers in design view,
or at least a
> quick
> way to deselect the current selection?
>
> This problem does not appear in DW8 when editing the
same files.
>
> thanks
>
>

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