Annoying Dreamweaver error message

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Annoying Dreamweaver error message

No editable regions error message, but there are.

midlands

11:54 am on Jul 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

I have previosly relied on simple text editors to build sites but I have just got hold of Dreamweaver MX and its templates are saving hours. I have converted a large site to a template, but now it says the template has no editable regions - but it does, have I deleted something? is there a bug? - all regions are correctly nested - do I have to start again? Surley not - Help.

limbo

12:15 pm on Jul 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

are you using code/layout view? if so check your template files editable regions are highlighted in green. Sounds to me if you have an error in the template tag and it is causing the template cascade to faulter.

Also closing DW, rebooting and then redefining you site can clear up glitches. Particularly in DW4

Ta, Limbo

midlands

12:27 pm on Jul 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

Its sorted, I'm not still not 100% what went wrong, I think your right about the cascade, I was using Code view. Massive relief.

As a side note, the design view (though I rarely use it) doesn't seem to deal with css very well, particularly sidebar menus created from lists, it could just be there various workarounds in the css causing trouble in MX but they're all over the place. Its not a big problem but is this just the way it is? or are there some settings that need to be tinkered with. I'm using the @import rule for the css.

limbo

1:23 pm on Jul 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

By the way - Welcome to Webmasterworld Midlands :)

DW is notorious for lack of CSS WYSIWYG support so you just have to keep live testing the CSS via browsers. You can use topstyle in conjunction with DW - I have been told the CSS support is much better there.

Limbo

midlands

1:48 pm on Jul 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

Spot-on.

Many thanks.

limbo

4:19 pm on Jul 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

Also if your editable regions are not in the <body> DWMX 'forgets' about them when you try to save the template and asks you if you still want to save the page? Odd?!

midlands

2:12 pm on Jul 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yes, I thinks thats what messed it up, I tride to put the <body> tag as an editable region, because various pages have different body classes for color scheming, and I wanted to use 1 template. The begin editable region tag was outside the body tag - it really confused it, it did ask me if I wanted to save, and then lost the saves anyway. Stll, its all good now.