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Bug? Inserting into a Template with an Editable Head Section Causes Error

Thread began 11/21/2009 6:44 pm by Rich Petersen | Last modified 11/30/2009 4:44 pm by Eric Mittman | 4854 views | 8 replies |

Rich Petersen

Bug? Inserting into a Template with an Editable Head Section Causes Error

Hello!

I think I encountered a bug.

I have a template with an editable head section. When I insert a CSS Menu, it inserts another editable region withing my editable head region. When I save the template, it generates the attached error.

To correct, I had to remove MY editable region. If I removed yours, the template would not update the child pages. So I deleted my editable region, and when I updated, I had my stuff move to yours.

Here is the generated head section that causes the error:



<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<head>

<title>Teacher's Lunchbox</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="../lunchbox.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="../CSSMenuWriter/cssmw/menu.js"></script>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
<!--
@import url("../CSSMenuWriter/cssmw/menu.css");
-->
</style>
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="menu_ie" -->
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
@import url("../CSSMenuWriter/cssmw/menu_ie.css");
</style>

<![endif]-->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
</head><!-- TemplateEndEditable -->

<center>

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Eric Mittman

I have done some testing on this with the latest version of CSS Menu Writer (2.0.3) in DW CS3 on Win XP. When I did this I can confirm that there is an editable region that is created for the menu_ie stuff, but I could not get it to create this area within the head editable region on my template. Please post back with some more info about the version of DW, the OS you are using and any other details you can think of about the process you used to apply the menu to the template.

I will do some more testing to see if there is an issue under certain circumstances that may cause this.

In my template the editable head region ends before any of the Menu Writer code begins.

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Rich Petersen

Hello Eric,

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate, Deamweaver CS4 both with full patches/updates.

I had a template, without any menus (just images that linked to pages). Then as the website expanded for the next rev, there were a bunch of pages to be added, so I inserted the menu using CSS Menu Writer 2.02

I will retry using 2.03 and let you know. It's not a big deal for me, I was able to get around it, but am more than happy to provide what info I can if it is a bug and not just me being an idiot...

If it happens again, I will zip up my template and supporting files and get them to you so you can test on your end. Maybe my template is banged up somehow.

Rich

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Rich Petersen

Eric,

Yep, still does it with 2.03. I uninstalled and reinstalled the extension as required and also deleted my cache file before trying.

Head section before insert:

----------------------------------------------------

<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<head>

<title>Teacher's Lunchbox</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="../lunchbox.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
----------------------------------------------------

Head section after insert and which generates the error:


----------------------------------------------------
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<head>

<title>Teacher's Lunchbox</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="../lunchbox.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="../CSSMenuWriter/cssmw/menu.js"></script>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
<!--
@import url("../CSSMenuWriter/cssmw/menu.css");
-->
</style>
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="menu_ie" -->
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
@import url("../CSSMenuWriter/cssmw/menu_ie.css");
</style>

<![endif]-->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
</head><!-- TemplateEndEditable -->

----------------------------------------------------

I have to go take my wife somewhere right now, but will upload my tempate when I return. I wanted to get you this info before I left.

Rich

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Eric Mittman

Thanks for the update on this, please post back with the template when you are able to and I will do some additional testing to try and determine what may be going on.

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Rich Petersen

Here you go.....I was removing the image based menu and replacing it with a CSS Menu. So what I did was remove the images that make up the last row in the table, merged the cells, and then inserted a CSS menu with menuwriter.

Attached Files
maintemplatepage.zip
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Eric Mittman

Thanks for the template file, I was able to reproduce this issue just as you have stated. I did some investigating and I have found the problem, it is the way that you have your editable region for the head setup, currently you have it like this:

html:
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" --> 
<head>
</head><!-- TemplateEndEditable -->



If you update it so that the head tags are outside of the editable region then this will not happen, like this:

html:
<head>
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
</head>



When I create a template from within DW it seems to default to having the head tag outside of this editable region. So long as you have the head tags outside the region it should work as expected for you. Let me know if you have any other problems with this.

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Rich Petersen

Ah, makes sense...

Very good Eric, thanks alot.

Love it when a mystery is solved....haha

Thanks again...

Rich

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Eric Mittman

Sometimes the solution lies in the problem itself, literally. :)

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