Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014 v.13 - Manual (Page 523)

Creating editable regions in templates
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Insert an editable region
Select editable regions
Remove an editable region
Change an editable region’s name
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 .
Insert an editable region
Editable template regions control which areas of a template-based page a user can edit. Before you insert an editable region, save the document
you are working in as a template.
Note: If you insert an editable region in a document rather than a template file, an alert warns you that the document will automatically be saved
as a template.
You can place an editable region anywhere in your page, but consider the following points if you are making a table or an absolutely-positioned
element (AP element) editable:
You can mark an entire table or an individual table cell as editable, but you can’t mark multiple table cells as a single editable region. If a
tag is selected, the editable region includes the region around the cell; if not, the editable region affects only content inside the cell.
AP elements and AP element content are separate elements; making an AP element editable lets you change the position of the AP element
as well as its contents, but making an AP element’s contents editable lets you change only the content of the AP element, not its position.
1. In the Document window, do one of the following to select the region:
Select the text or content that you want to set as an editable region.
Place the insertion point where you want to insert an editable region.
2. Do one of the following to insert an editable region:
Select Insert > Template Objects > Editable Region.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh), then select Templates > New Editable Region.
In the Common category of the Insert panel, click the Templates button, then select Editable Region from the pop-up menu.
3. In the Name box, enter a unique name for the region. (You cannot use the same name for more than one editable region in a particular
template.)
Note: Do not use special characters in the Name box.
4. Click OK. The editable region is enclosed in a highlighted rectangular outline in the template, using the highlighting color that is set in
preferences. A tab at the upper-left corner of the region shows the name of the region. If you insert an empty editable region in the
document, the name of the region also appears inside the region.
Select editable regions
You can easily identify and select template regions in both the template document and template-based documents.
Select an editable region in the Document window
Click the tab in the upper-left corner of the editable region.
Find an editable region and select it in the document
Select Modify > Templates, then select the name of the region from the list at the bottom of that submenu.
Note: Editable regions that are inside a repeated region do not appear in the menu. You must locate these regions by looking for tabbed borders
in the Document window.
The editable region is selected in the document.
Remove an editable region
If you’ve marked a region of your template file as editable and you want to lock it (make it noneditable in template-based documents) again, use
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