Editing and updating templates

Editing and updating templates

When you make changes to and save a template, Dreamweaver automatically updates all documents attached to the template. You can also manually update documents based on a template, if necessary.

NOTE

To edit a template for a Contribute site, you must use Dreamweaver; you cannot edit templates in Contribute.

Dreamweaver automatically checks template syntax when you save a template. You might also want to check template syntax when you edit a template.

NOTE

For information about editing template-based documents, see Editing content in a template-based document.

This section covers the following topics:

Opening a template for editing
Manually updating documents that are based on templates
Updating templates in a Contribute site
Checking template syntax

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Managing Templates

About Dreamweaver templates

Creating a Dreamweaver template

Creating templates for a Contribute site

Creating editable regions

Creating repeating regions

Using optional regions

Defining editable tag attributes

Creating a nested template

Editing and updating templates

Opening a template for editing

Manually updating documents that are based on templates

Updating templates in a Contribute site

Checking template syntax

Managing templates

Exporting and importing template XML content

Exporting a site without template markup

Applying or removing a template from an existing document

Editing content in a template-based document

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