Adobe 38028779 User Guide - Page 389

To create a new document based on a template, do one of the following: • Choose File > New from Template. In the dialog box that appears, choose a template. (If you don't want your new document to update when the template changes, deselect Update Page When Template Changes.) Then click Select. • Choose File > New to create a new document, and then apply a template to it by selecting a template in the Templates category of the Assets panel and clicking the Apply button. (Alternatively, you can drag a template from the Assets panel to the document.) To apply a template to an existing Dreamweaver document: Open the document. Then do one of the following: • Click in the Document window's Design view, then choose Modify > Templates > Apply Template to Page. Choose a template from the list and click Select. • Select the template in the Templates category of the Assets panel, and click the Apply button. • Drag the template from the Templates category of the Assets panel to the Document window's Design view. Note: Saying that a template has been applied to a document is equivalent to saying that the document is based on the template. Those phrases are used interchangeably. When you apply a template to an existing document that isn't already based on a template, Dreamweaver turns the document into a copy of the template file, placing the material from the document's existing body section into a single editable region of your choice. Note: Behaviors and other scripts in the existing document that are associated with body content remain in the head section of the document after you apply a template to it. Other head items in the existing document, such as meta tags, are discarded when you apply the template. When you apply a new template to an existing document that's based on another template, Dreamweaver turns the document into a copy of the new template, placing the material from the document's existing editable regions into corresponding editable regions of the new template wherever possible. Dreamweaver does this by comparing the names of the editable regions in the document to the names of the editable regions in the new template; for each region name that matches, Dreamweaver places the existing contents of that region into the new region with the same name. Reusing Content with Templates and Libraries 389