Using Editable Tag Attributes

An editable region lets you—or, more likely, page-author jockeys—change areas of HTML, like a paragraph, image, or an entire table, on new pages they create from your template. However, when you create a template for others to use, you may want to limit the page authors’ editing abilities. For example, you may want to allow budding web designers to change the source of the image used in a banner ad without letting them change the width, height, and class applied to the image. Or you might want to use templates but still let others assign a class to the <body> tag—a move normally forbidden on template-based pages. You can use Dreamweaver’s Editable Tag Attribute to specify which tag properties your successors can change.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION: Editable Regions, Repeating Regions, and Errors

When I try to insert an editable region inside a repeating region, I get the following error: “The selection is already in an editable, repeating, or optional region.” What’s that about?

This error message essentially means you’re trying to add a template region where it doesn’t belong. It appears most often when you attempt to put a repeating or optional region inside an editable region. That kind of nesting is a no-no; page authors can change anything inside an editable region on template-based pages, and as such, Dreamweaver can’t touch it.

However, you may get this error message seemingly by mistake. For instance, it’s perfectly OK to add an editable region inside ...

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