Question:
How can I add a giant white box where I can enter text in Dreamweaver?
Pillar of Autumn
2012-07-18 06:53:53 UTC
I am not very good at Dreamweaver. In my site on the main page I added a template that I downloaded online. It had a background and the text was in a white box from top to bottom in the middle.

I cannot add that same template to another page. When I do it becomes white and over simplified.

So I want to re-create it. How can I add the same white thing down the middle. Like look here in yahoo e.g. The background is blue but you see white here
Three answers:
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2012-07-18 07:35:09 UTC
First, save a copy of your page with another file name. Then delete everything that you _don't_ want to be on every page--image, texts, etc. that belongs on only that particular page rather than all pages. Next, add an editable region (Insert...Template Objects...Editable Region) anyplace where you will want content of some sort on each page, even though it won't be the same on every page. (This last step is optional, but it makes it easier to add the content consistently later.)



Once you have the page down to exactly the things you wish to use on every page use File... Save As Template. Then, to create another page with the same elements to which you can add specific content, use File ... New ... Create From Template and select the template you just saved. You should also follow this procedure to recreate your original page (make a new page from the template with the shared elements, then cut and page the specific content from the original) so that it will be based on the new template. Otherwise, changes made to your template won't affect the original page.



Once you have your template, you can make changes to every page based on that template automatically. If you decide, for example, that every page needs a logo in the upper right, add it to the template. Then, when you save that template, it will ask if you want to update every page based on that template, and you will say yes.



[Instructions were based on CS4 version of Dreamweaver; I can't promise that other versions wouldn't differ a bit.]
Ryan
2012-07-18 06:59:11 UTC
I'm not quite sure what you're looking for. In the beginning you seem to be referencing a text box, but then you go on about CSS. It's sort of confusing.
J0nny3
2012-07-18 07:17:15 UTC
it's just a simple div with a background color..



This is similar to what yahoo answers has...







Content goes inside here





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