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Make 'background' an 'editable region' in a template?

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lineofvision

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How do you make the 'background' an 'editable region' in a template?

"Try and understand life as it parallels with your environment .. then we will truly start to grow"
 
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Good question. I would like to know as well. I tried this before and couldnt figure it out. It just seemed easier for me at the time to just remove my background.

...I ended up liking the site better without it.
 
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Just use a style sheet and apply that to each page

body {background-image: url(..url of image); }

or attach it in your template and it will automatically attach itself to each page that you create!

luds
 
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oops... think I misread your original post!

Still CSS is the answer though... just embed the CSS in the <head> section of each page...

<style type=&quot;text/css&quot;>
<!--
body {background-image: url(..url of image); }
-->
</style>

luds
 
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bjm027-
Thanks.. the page backgrounds look good.. would like to keep them.

luds-
I'll add the Style Sheet and see what happens... will let you know! Thanks

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the better way is to use the &quot;code view&quot; of the template. any portion that falls into these two tags are editable.
Code: 
<!--Begin Editable-->
<!--End Editable-->

just put ur body tag between such tags. now u can modify ur body tag to ur heart's content...


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&quot;Make 'background' an 'editable region' in a template&quot;
= I agree w VBKris
.....what is the deal with CSS and images.....by defalut if u repleace the background image (by pasting another image with the same name and repleacing it- nothing to do with your code)....well u just edited the da** thing! :)
to make the &quot;code&quot; editable you must &quot;tag&quot; the sections of that same code.
luds showed u another trick....but even his tags need to be &quot;taged&quot; by <!--Begin Editable-->


OK? now, don't make me make your DW stuck in a Code View :) LOL
All the best!

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lebisol i forot to mention one thing though. u cannot remove/change <!--Begin Editable--> tag in dreamweaver. i had to do it using notepad...

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lol.. now there's a paradox.. an uneditable editable tag! lol
 
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Its the region that is editable not the tag. If you want to add /change / remove the region tags you must do this to the template.

Cheech

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