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Recognizing template-based documents in Code view

In Code view, editable regions of a document derived from a template appear in a different color than code in the non-editable regions. You can make changes only to code in the editableregions or editable parameters but you cannot type in locked regions.

Editable content is marked in HTML with the following Dreamweaver comments:

<!‑‑ InstanceBeginEditable> and <!‑‑ InstanceEndEditable ‑‑>

Everything between these comments is editable in a template-based document. The HTML source code for an editable region might look like this:

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0">
<table width="75%"  border="1"  cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr bgcolor="#333366"> 
    <td>Name</td>
    <td><font color="#FFFFFF">Address</font></td>
    <td><font color="#FFFFFF">Telephone Number</font></td>
  </tr>
  <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="LocationList" --> 
  <tr> 
    <td>Enter name</td>
    <td>Enter Address</td>
    <td>Enter Telephone</td>
  </tr>
  <!-- InstanceEndEditable --> 
</table> 
</body>

The default color for non-editable text is gray; you can select a different color for the editable and non-editable regions in the Preferences dialog box.