Macromedia Dreamweaver :: Lots and lots of code errors


	Lots and lots of code errors I work at a nonprofit, and we've just been given a new website provided to us by a team of volunteers. However, the template has some minor typos that I need to fix. Whenever I save the template, I get error after error, primarily along the lines of "Unbalanced #EndEditable tag" or "Nested Editable Regions," but some others have popped up, too. I can't ignore the error, either, because the rest of the pages in the site won't update. The volunteer team was working in two different versions of Dreamweaver, and the following part of the code seems to be source of several of the problems. There's two different versions of the "begineditable" and "endeditable tags," with a section beginning with "#begineditable" and then containing a "templatebegineditable." When I try to standardize the tags or remove them from within each other, the content region drops to below the left nav. I don't understand what's happenning, or how to fix it. Any ideas? Thanks, Jodi <!-- BeginEditable "leftnav" --> <table width="205" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td height="32" align="center" background="../IMAGES/left_nav_top.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="nav_links"> <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="left_nav_title" --> <table width="190" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="nav_links_title">About Page </td> </tr> </table> <!-- TemplateEndEditable --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top" background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif" class="text"> <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="left_nav_sections" --> <table width="190" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td height="25"><img src="../images/button-arrow.gif" width="13" height="13"><span class="nav_links">About Us </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><img src="../images/button-arrow.gif" width="13" height="13"><span class="nav_links">Board of Directors </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><img src="../images/button-arrow.gif" width="13" height="13"><span class="nav_links">Meet Our Staff </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><img src="../images/button-arrow.gif" width="13" height="13"><span class="nav_links">Partners</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><img src="../images/button-arrow.gif" width="13" height="13"><span class="nav_links">Funding and Financials </span></td> </tr> </table> <!-- TemplateEndEditable --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="32" align="center" valign="top" background="../IMAGES/left_nav_bottom.gif" class="text""> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- #EndEditable --> <table width="205" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td height="32" background="../IMAGES/left_nav_top.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="nav_links"><font color="#000000" class="nav_links_title">What's your Footprint?</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif" class="text"> <p><a href="http://www.myfootprint.org" target="_blank"><img src="../images/logo_eco_fp.gif" width="180" height="80" border="0"></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif" class="text"><a href="http://www.officefootprint.org" target="_blank"><img src="../images/logo_off_fp.gif" width="180" height="26" border="0"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif" class="text"><a href="http://www.kidsfootprint.org" target="_blank"><img src="../images/logo_kid_fp.gif" width="180" height="28" border="0"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif" class="text"><a href="http://www.ecologicalfootprint.org" target="_blank"><img src="../images/logo_nat_fp.gif" width="180" height="51" border="0"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_bottom.gif" class="text"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="32" background="../IMAGES/left_nav_top.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="nav_links"><font color="#000000" class="nav_links_title">Learn about EJCC </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td background="../IMAGES/left_nav_middle.gif" class="text"><a href="http://www.ejcc.org" target="_blank"><img src="../images/logo_ejcc.gif" width="180" height="60" border="0"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="14" background="../IMAGES/left_nav_bottom.gif" class="text"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="803"> <!-- #BeginEditable "content" --> <table width="763" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td height="31" background="../images/content_top.gif"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td background="../images/content_middle.gif"> <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --> <table width="760" height="491" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="text"> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- TemplateEndEditable --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="31" background="../images/content_bottom.gif"> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- #EndEditable --></td> </table> <!-- #EndEditable --></td> I think somebody worked on the page with dw3 or dw4. If the code you showed was from the Template, it should work if you strip out the #BeginEditable and #EndEditable and leave the TemplateBegin and TemplateEnd. Then scan the code to see if all template syntax is correct, and everything you need to edit is in an Editable region. dw menu-->modify-->Templates-->Check template syntax. My guess is the dw4 person made one big editable area, and the MX or newer person put in a group of distinct editable areas that are now nested inside the old template syntax editable area. Strong Suggestion- Make a backup copy of the site's Local Site Folder before doing anything- template syntax problems can cause loss of content. -- Alan Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- Thanks so much for the advice. I've done what you've suggested, and all the syntax is correct. However, after making changes to any .htm page that is based on the template, I save the file using file-save and get a message asking me to save the .htm page as a template. When I simply close the page, I'm asked if I want to update and it makes the changes. Am I doing something wrong with the template, or is this a quirk? -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- > I save the file using file-save and get a message asking me to > save the .htm page as a template. please give a link to a total page, and the total template. the message above means that you have TemplateBegin or TemplateEnd comments in the child files (those are only seen IN the .dwt template file). They should be InstanceBegin or InstanceEnd in the child file -- Alan Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ -----------------------------------------------Reply----------------------------------------------- Thank you for looking this over. I've just uploaded most of the site to http://test.rprogress.org. Oddly, after loading the site, the sections that reside in the template are not showing on the pages--you'll see that some drop down menus appear when you move the mouse around the top of the page, for example, but there are images there that should be showing. Same with the left nav bar. Now I'm really stumped.