Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 - Manual (Page 500)

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Templates
Last updated 6/3/2015
Apply a template to an existing document from the Document window
1 Open the document you want to apply the template to.
2 Select Modify > Templates > Apply Template to Page.
The Select Template dialog box appears.
3 Choose a template from the list, then click Select.
If content exists in the document that can’t be automatically assigned to a template region, the Inconsistent Region
Names dialog box appears.
4 Select a destination for the content by using the Move Content to New Region menu to select one of the following:
• Select a region in the new template to move the existing content to.
• Select Nowhere to remove the content from the document.
5 To move all unresolved content to the selected region, click Use For All.
6 Click OK to apply the template or click Cancel to cancel the application of the template to the document.
Note: When you apply a template to an existing document, the template replaces the document’s contents with the
template’s boilerplate content. Always back up a page’s contents before applying a template to it.
Undo the template changes
❖ Select Edit > Undo Apply Template.
The document reverts to its state before the template was applied.
Detach a document from a template
To make changes to the locked regions of a document based on a template, you must detach the document from the
template. When the document is detached, the entire document becomes editable.
Note: You cannot convert a template file (.dwt) to a normal file by simply resaving the template file as an HTML (.html)
file. Doing so does not delete the template code that appears throughout the document. If you want to convert a template
file to a normal file, you can save the document as a normal HTML file, but must then manually delete all of the template
code in Code view.
1 Open the template-based document you want to detach.
2 Select Modify > Templates > Detach from Template.
The document is detached from the template and all template code is removed.
Editing content in a template-based document
Note: The user interface has been simplified in Dreamweaver CC and later. As a result, you may not find some of the
options described in this article in Dreamweaver CC and later. For more information, see
this article .
About editing content in template-based documents
Dreamweaver templates specify regions that are locked (uneditable) and others that are editable for template-based
documents.