Headings in a Region ..

Hi everyone,
I have created a from based on a table which has 60 columns.In the Form i have to put some headings like
--PERSONAL INFORMATION
--EMPLOYER INFORMATION to devide those fields to groups.How can i put heading between the field which r in the same region.
Thanks

Have you already thought about creating some new HTML regions for grouping your fields? Just re-assign them to the new regions.
If you want to have a separator in a region, just create a "dummy page item" of type "Display as Text (doesn't save state)" with the label of your choice.
I think that should work.
Patrick
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> Murray 'ACE' wanted to understand why I am using nested
templates.
>
Primary
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which establishes
> the
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Spry menus - if
> I
> change the menu on the primary template, all pages will
be updated. The
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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
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template
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change to a heading
> in
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> reiterate, a
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template, all
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