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Library and template functions, Dom.applytemplate(), Dom.detachfromlibrary() – Adobe Dreamweaver API Reference CS5 User Manual

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Returns
A string that contains the contents of the Clipboard, if the Clipboard contains text (which can be HTML); otherwise,
it returns nothing.

Example
If

dreamweaver.getClipboardText()

returns

"text bold text"

,

dreamweaver.getClipboardText(true)

returns

"text bold text"

.

Library and template functions

Library and template functions handle operations that are related to library items and templates, such as creating,
updating, and breaking links between a document and a template or library item. Methods of the

dreamweaver.libraryPalette

object either control or act on the selection in the Assets panel library items, not in

the current document. Likewise, methods of the

dreamweaver.templatePalette

object control or act on the

selection in the Assets panel template objects.

dom.applyTemplate()

Availability
Dreamweaver 3.

Description
Applies a template to the current document. If no argument is supplied, the Select Template dialog box appears. This
function is valid only for the document that has focus.

Arguments
{templateURL}, bMaintainLink

The templateURL argument is the path to a template in the current site, which is expressed as a file:// URL.

The bMaintainLink argument is a Boolean value that indicates whether to maintain the link to the original template
(

true

) or not (

false

).

Returns
Nothing.

Enabler
See “

dom.canApplyTemplate()

” on page 492.

dom.detachFromLibrary()

Availability
Dreamweaver 3.