Operation Manual
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USING DREAMWEAVER
Creating and managing templates
Last updated 3/28/2012
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Editing, updating, and deleting templates
About editing and updating templates
When you make changes to and save a template, all the documents based on the template are updated. You can also
manually update a template-based document or the entire site if necessary.
Note: To edit a template for a Contribute site, you must use Dreamweaver; you cannot edit templates in Contribute.
Use the Templates category of the Assets panel to manage existing templates, including renaming template files and
deleting template files.
You can perform the following template management tasks with the Assets panel:
• Create a template
• Edit and update templates
• Apply or remove a template from an existing document
Dreamweaver checks template syntax when you save a template but it’s a good idea to manually check the template
syntax while you’re editing a template.
More Help topics
“Creating a Dreamweaver template” on page 374
“Check template syntax” on page 396
“Applying or removing a template from an existing document” on page 391
Open a template for editing
You can open a template file directly for editing, or you can open a template-based document, then open the attached
template for editing.
When you make a change to a template, Dreamweaver prompts you to update the documents based on the template.
Note: You can also manually update the documents for template changes if necessary.
More Help topics
“Check template syntax” on page 396
Open and edit a template file
1 In the Assets panel (Window > Assets), select the Templates category on the left side of the panel .
The Assets panel lists all of the available templates for your site and displays a preview of the selected template.
2 In the list of available templates, do one of the following:
• Double-click the name of the template you want to edit.
• Select a template to edit, then click the Edit button at the bottom of the Assets panel.