[Sage]

Hi all,

I was working on my website today, and made a few modifications to my template file. After doing so, I saved of course, then went to change my other files (that are based off of that template file). However, now I can't make any changes to any file in Code view, nor when using the code pane in Code/Design view. It will allow me to do it via the WYSIWYG interface, but I have to do everything through that, including assigning a class to something. If I edit through code view, then save, I get a notice saying something like, "Making this change would require changing code that is locked by a template or translator. The change will be discarded".

This is really frustrating, because I don't like the way DW handles some things, and I'm in a situation where I need to place on image on a page without paragraph tags around it, but DW won't let me do that.

BTW, this has never happened to me before (and I've been using the same template for almost a year now), and I did not change the EditableContent tags in my template page.

Any ideas, other than re-building a new template page from scratch?

[Sage]

Weird.

I've pinpointed the problem, which is a line in the CSS that I use for the template:

position: relative;
top: -50px;

For some reason, that is the entire cause of the problem... when I removed it, DW would let me have free reign over everything once again. I really needed that particular property applied to one of my divisions, but oh well... I'll have to just workaround it somehow.

BTW, does anybody happen to know why that would screw DW up so badly?

[Love Calm Quiet]

[ don't get me started about DW MX's "user-unfriendliness - at least it has taught me to hand code ]

I periodically have that giant pain. I don't think the software is INTENDED to screw up that way.

Oftentimes I'll just close the file in DW and go in with a TEXT editor to make need changes - then re-open in DW.

Never have I seen such a promising software concept lag in execution... PageMaker 1.2... and that was in, I believe, 1955.

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Love Calm Quiet:
[ don't get me started about DW MX's "user-unfriendliness - at least it has taught me to hand code ]

one should always know how to hand code, in my opinion. quite invaluable.