Why would a class section highlight everything in design mode?

[okpeery]

I don't know if that is what is really happening. I made a template for my teachers for their lesson plans. I did not make a real template where they could only edit certain parts, this may be part of the problem. I allowed them to make some changes but I bet they did something wrong.

I edit in code view if I use Dreamweaver because I learned to write html by hand so I am not an expert on Dreamweaver.

The teachers use design view to edit their lesson plans. When they try to put a cursor in the objectives section or the areas of interaction section, mostly this happens here but it happens in other sections as well, instead of getting a cursor it highlights the whole section. It won't allow them to just edit a few words. They have to delete the whole section.

I just checked mine and sometimes it does the same thing. Anyone have an idea why that would be?

http://www.hillfreedman.phila.k12.pa.us/lessons/peery.html

 

[Cheech]

Just tell them to double click in the relevant div. DW as default seems to select the whole div when you click in it. I have noticed this before on a site I maintain but get round it by dbl clicking a word in the highlighted div

Cheech

[Peace][Pipe]

 

[okpeery]

Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. I used my lesson plans because I know there is no extraneous code, but could trying to change a bunch of formatting options and how DW renders that code cause a problem like this? I could post a couple of other lesson plans but the code will be ugly.

How else could I create a template that is more or less protected from this kind of thing? My teachers know how to use DW more or less so I want to continue to use DW and not some other solution.

 

[Cheech]

Seems an expensive solution to have multiple licences for DW just so they can edit a page. Have you considered Contribute or even a Content Management System with a database behind it?

[Peace][Pipe]

 

[okpeery]

It is not the solution I would have chosen but my principal chose it before I got here, the 100 site licenses are already paid for, and we actually use Dreamweaver and Fireworks with students and hopefully this year I'll get to teach them a little Flash. So we do use it and there is a substantial educator discount and my school piloted it for the district so the district paid for 1/2 of our costs so in the end it was not an expensive option.

I'd like to make a template that only allowed editing in the text. I left it open before because teachers assured me they know how to use DW and they wanted to be able to customize their lesson plan page. Turns out they kinda know how to use it. My principal left it up to me. Next time I'll be stricter, I should have followed my instinct.