Contribute Acting strange - template parameters with repeating regions

Question

Basically what I'm trying to achieve is that there is a
repeating region on a page, and each region is supposed to
alternate colors. To achieve this, the regions with the colors are
put into a div which has a background color applied to it. To do
this, I have created two expressions, one to check to see if it's
an even numbered region, and if so, to open the div, and another to
close the div. That looks like this:
quote:
<!-- TemplateBeginRepeat name="Article" -->
@@((_index & 1) ? shade : noshade )@@
stuff
@@((_index & 1) ? shadeend : noshade )@@
<!-- TemplateEndRepeat -->
At the top, I have three template parameters to go along with
these:
quote:
<!-- TemplateParam name="shade" type="text"
value="<div>" -->
<!-- TemplateParam name="shadeend" type="text"
value="</div>" -->
<!-- TemplateParam name="noshade" type="text" value=""
-->
Which look like this on the actual pages:
quote:
<!-- InstanceParam name="shade" type="text"
value="&lt;div&gt;" -->
<!-- InstanceParam name="shadeend" type="text"
value="&lt;/div&gt;" -->
<!-- InstanceParam name="noshade" type="text" value=""
-->
The odd thing is that, when I add an editable region,
something weird occurs with the template parameters and they end up
looking like this:
quote:
<!-- InstanceParam name="shade" type="text"
value="&lt;div&gt;" --><!-- InstanceParam
name="shadeend" type="text" value="&lt;/div&gt;"
-->->
<!-- InstanceParam name="noshade" type="text" value=""
-->
And that, of course, results in having a nice "->" showing
up at the top of my page. The repeating region appears to work. It
changes background colors just like it should, but I have no idea
why it's throwing in the "->" at the end.

Answer 1

For grins, try changing this -
<div id="content1" style="display:none">
to this (IN THE TEMPLATE FILE) -
<div id="content@@(_repeat._index)@@''
style="display:none">
(that should be a " character after the last @ sign - I had
to use two '
characters to keep the code from getting munged in my
newsreader)
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"Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]> wrote
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>I need to see the template markup around the repeating
region, please.
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> "ITLogic" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> news:g2m25n$6se$[email protected]..
>> Sure. I'm using DW CS3. Here is a copy of the
repeating regions I'm
>> trying to
>> create. Notice each DIV has a sequential ID. I could
go hand edit this,
>> but I'm
>> trying to automate it as much as possible. I am
selling Contribute as a
>> means
>> for clients to edit their own content. Most don't
know how to spell HTML
>> much
>> less know how to use it.
>>
>> <div id="content0" style="display:''">
>>
>> <!-- ADD TICKER's CONTENT #1
HERE--------------------->
>>
>> <p>Hello</p>
>>
>> <!-- END CONTENT #1----------------->
>>
>> </div>
>>
>> <div id="content1" style="display:none">
>>
>> <!-- ADD TICKER's CONTENT #2
HERE--------------------->
>>
>> <p>World</p>
>>
>> <!-- END CONTENT #2----------------->
>>
>> </div>
>>
>