Changes to code not editable question

Hi - I recently inserted a Library Item into an editable area of a
Template-based page. After Previewing the page, I decided to take some extra
spaces out of the code. When I pressed the "Refresh" button in the Properties
window I got this extremely confusing Alert message which I have broken down
here:

1- "You have made changes to code that is not marked as editable." This is
wrong. The area of the page is CLEARLY marked as Editable.

2- "If you retain those changes, they will be lost the next time you apply a
template update to this file. Do you want to retain the changes until then?"
This is moot because no matter whether I chose Y or N, the code reverted either
immediately or when I tried to Preview the changes in browser.

This is a real puzzle. I don't think that this is the way it should be. So
that you may see the exact message and the code of the page in question I have
posted a screen capture:
www.newpixelcity.com/Picture2.pdf

Thanks for helping-
D

Murray sez? 8)

Can you show me the template page, please. Sometimes this error message is
a complete red-herring....

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"dzash2000" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hi - I recently inserted a Library Item into an editable area of a
Template-based page. After Previewing the page, I decided to take some
extra
spaces out of the code. When I pressed the "Refresh" button in the
Properties
window I got this extremely confusing Alert message which I have broken
down
here:

1- "You have made changes to code that is not marked as editable." This
is
wrong. The area of the page is CLEARLY marked as Editable.

2- "If you retain those changes, they will be lost the next time you
apply a
template update to this file. Do you want to retain the changes until
then?"
This is moot because no matter whether I chose Y or N, the code reverted
either
immediately or when I tried to Preview the changes in browser.

This is a real puzzle. I don't think that this is the way it should be.
So
that you may see the exact message and the code of the page in question I
have
posted a screen capture:
www.newpixelcity.com/Picture2.pdf

Thanks for helping-
D

Murray -
(Murray sez because I was following some of your advice from another topic
when this bugger came up. I wanted to keep your advice on LBIs separate from
the rest of the site until I understood it completely. Plus - it IS what you
sed to do. ;-)

Here is the http://www.newpixelcity.com/MurraySez.htm

Thanks,
D

For grins, try fixing this -

<!--- small list - UNDER MAIN LEFT NAV links--->

Your comment tags are improperly formed here.

Frankly, unless you have a good reason for using Library items in
NON-EDITABLE parts of the template, I think you are just compounding the
confusion by doing so. The only time I would use Library items in templates
is when I use them in Editable regions to add page-specific navigation, and
I don't even do it that way anymore....

So - can you tell me precisely what you changed when you got this error?

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"dzash2000" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Murray -
(Murray sez because I was following some of your advice from another
topic
when this bugger came up. I wanted to keep your advice on LBIs separate
from
the rest of the site until I understood it completely. Plus - it IS what
you
sed to do. ;-)

Here is the http://www.newpixelcity.com/MurraySez.htm

Thanks,
D

I'm coming to the same conclusion about LBI inside non-edit sections of T's. I
could just put everything in the T. This is the first site I'm building with
DW and I wanted to try some features. I'm not fully at home with it and in
fact I often find that procedures I remember from other apps can actually
frustrate my efforts to learn a new one. That comment code is a left over from
hand coding on a text editor. It has been part of the T from the beginning -
weeks ago.

I tried to change the page ( in code view) a few times. First I tried to put
a <br> immediately before the Library item code. Then, when DW balked at
that, I just tried to take out some of the white space in the code,

I'm coming to the same conclusion about LBI inside non-edit sections of T's. I
could just put everything in the T. This is the first site I'm building with
DW and I wanted to try some features. I'm not fully at home with it and in
fact I often find that procedures I remember from other apps can actually
frustrate my efforts to learn a new one. That comment code is a left over from
hand coding on a text editor. It has been part of the T from the beginning -
weeks ago.

I tried to change the page ( in code view) a few times. First I tried to put
a <br> immediately before the Library item code. Then, when DW balked at
that, I just tried to take out some of the white space in the code,

I'm coming to the same conclusion about LBI inside non-edit sections of
T's. I
could just put everything in the T.

Precisely.

That comment code is a left over from
hand coding on a text editor. It has been part of the T from the
beginning -
weeks ago.

It still needs to be fixed.

I tried to change the page ( in code view) a few times. First I tried
to put
a <br> immediately before the Library item code. Then, when DW balked
at
that, I just tried to take out some of the white space in the code,

Can you zip the page and email it to me, please? forums at mydomainname.com
where mydomainname=great-web-sights

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"dzash2000" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I'm coming to the same conclusion about LBI inside non-edit sections of
T's. I
could just put everything in the T. This is the first site I'm building
with
DW and I wanted to try some features. I'm not fully at home with it and
in
fact I often find that procedures I remember from other apps can actually
frustrate my efforts to learn a new one. That comment code is a left over
from
hand coding on a text editor. It has been part of the T from the
beginning -
weeks ago.

I tried to change the page ( in code view) a few times. First I tried
to put
a <br> immediately before the Library item code. Then, when DW balked
at
that, I just tried to take out some of the white space in the code,