Adobe 38028779 User Guide - Page 381

Suppose you want each page based on the template to contain a link pointing to the file home.html. You open the Catalog_Page template to add the link, and you select the image that you want to attach the link to. But if you type home.html into the link text box in the Property inspector, you'll encounter the documentrelative link problem: when you save the edited template, the documents based on the template will point to the wrong place, because the link in the template file is interpreted as relative to the Templates folder rather than relative to the Catalog folder. That is, the home.html link in the template file points to home.html in the Templates folder, instead of to ../Catalog/home.html. When Dreamweaver updates the documents based on the template, it modifies the document-relative links in the documents; for documents in the Catalog folder, a link in the template file to ../Catalog/home.html is converted to home.html, but a link in the template file to home.html is converted to ../Templates/home.html. If you select the home.html file using the folder icon or the Point-to-File icon rather than typing its name manually, Dreamweaver automatically updates all documents based on the template to use the correct relative paths to home.html. Note: In some cases (such as file paths in event handlers in templates) you can't use the folder icon or the Point-to-File icon; in those cases, be sure to enter the correct path by hand. Defining a template's editable regions In a template, editable regions are the parts of the page that can be changed in files based on the template-for example, the text of an article in a newsletter would appear in an editable region, so that every article could contain different text. Locked (noneditable) regions are the parts of the page layout that remain constant from one page to another. All regions in a new template are locked when you create the template, so to make the template useful, you must make some regions editable (unlock them). While you are editing the template file itself, you can make changes to both editable and locked regions. In a document based on the template, however, you can make changes only to the editable regions of the document; the locked regions of the document can't be modified. Note: When you name a region, you can't use the following characters: single or double quotation marks (' "), angle brackets (< >), and ampersands (&). Reusing Content with Templates and Libraries 381